Patient demographics by type of medication error*
| Errors with minimal potential (n (%)) | Near misses (n (%)) | No error (n (%)) | p Value† | |
| Medication errors with minimal potential for harm | ||||
| Total | 792 (100) | 372 (100) | 618 (100) | – |
| Gender | ||||
| Female | 377 (48) | 193 (52) | 324 (52) | 0.15 |
| Age | ||||
| Neonates | 14 (2) | 8 (2) | 27 (4) | 0.36 |
| Infants | 211 (27) | 103 (28) | 147 (24) | |
| Toddlers | 244 (31) | 122 (33) | 181 (29) | |
| School age | 280 (35) | 117 (32) | 195 (32) | |
| Adolescents | 43 (5) | 22 (6) | 66 (11) | |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||
| White | 394 (51) | 168 (47) | 294 (49) | 0.28 |
| Black | 113 (15) | 53 (15) | 106 (18) | |
| Hispanic | 165 (21) | 83 (23) | 109 (18) | |
| Other | 103 (13) | 52 (15) | 91 (16) | |
| Insurance | ||||
| Medicaid | 113 (14) | 52 (14) | 56 (9) | 0.008 |
| Non-Medicaid | 679 (86) | 320 (86) | 560 (91) | |