Administration errors by type (columns may not equate due to infusions with >1 error type)
| Author | Number of errors | Wrong drug N (%) | Wrong dose N (%) | Wrong rate N (%) | Wrong diluent N (%) | Wrong volume N (%) | Wrong time N (%) | Wrong pump setting N (%) | Dose omission N (%) |
| Cousins | 185 | 1 (0.5) | 132 (71.4) | 2 (1.1) | 49 (26.4) | 0 | 0 | ||
| Ghaleb | 85 | 85 (100) | |||||||
| Narula P | 46 | 7 (15.2) | |||||||
| O’Hare | 168 | 114 (67.9) | 1 (0.6) | 24 (14.3) | 140 (83.3) | 2 (1.2) | |||
| Ross | 195 | 32 (16.4) | |||||||
| Taxis | 212 | 12 (5.6) | 163 (76.7) | 36 (17) | 12 (5.7) | ||||
| Wirtz | 34 | 3 (8.8) | 27 (79.4) | 10 (32.3) | |||||
| Total | 925 | 13 (1.4) | 536 (57.9) | 66 (7.1) | 24 (2.6) | 189 (20.4) | 24 (2.6) |
Spaces left blank indicate no reported data pertaining to intravenous medicines.