Table 3

Relative contribution of each tempo to the five main classes of adverse events

Nature of adverse eventsSeries of 623 files of tempo-related events
GPs' access to knowledge (%)Disease tempo (%)Office tempo (%)Patient tempo (%)Out-office coordination tempo (%)Total
Missed or delayed diagnosis30.751.94.26.819.7113.3
Adverse drug events57.133.36.019.031.0146.4
Poor strategic of care, inadequate treatment, surveillance29.943.37.517.227.6125.4
Ethics, conflict management, and miscellaneous4.16.850.020.323.0104.1
Falls/device and care-induced traumas52.211.928.420.94.5117.9
  • Since the coding scheme was permitting the combination of two contributive tempos, the sum of tempos for a given class of adverse event is always more than 100%. The closer the total to 100%, the more the considered adverse event has resulted from only one tempo (for instance the missed or delayed diagnosis). Conversely, the greater the sum, the more the adverse event has resulted from associations of tempos.