Table 3

Relative proportion of breaches by category by hospital

CategoryHospital 1Hospital 2Hospital 3Hospital 4Hospital 5Hospital 6All Hospitals
Latent conditions
 Policy/procedure (%)29.223.226.034.625.014.023.2
 Equipment (%)10.42.810.715.411.48.49.3
 System processes (%)13.021.89.216.39.120.816.3
Active failures
 Situational awareness (%)5.220.49.29.615.916.213.0
 Shared mental model (%)8.313.427.510.614.819.216.0
 Communication (%)33.918.317.613.523.921.422.3
Total (%)100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0100.0