Characteristics of RCAs performed between 2001 and 2008 (n=302)
| Patient age (mean, SD) | 54 (32–66) |
| Male (%) | 49.3 |
| Hospital departments involved (%) | |
| Surgery/surgical subspecialties | 52.6 |
| Medicine/medical subspecialties | 13.9 |
| OB/GYN | 7.6 |
| Radiology | 6.3 |
| Paediatrics | 4.3 |
| Anaesthesia | 4.3 |
| Emergency medicine | 4.0 |
| Psychiatry | 2.0 |
| Other | 1.7 |
| Neurology | 1.3 |
| Dentistry | 1.0 |
| Outcome severity (n, %)* | |
| A | 0 |
| B | 0 |
| C | 8 (7.5) |
| D | 17 (16.0) |
| E | 15 (14.2) |
| F | 6 (5.7) |
| G | 13 (12.3) |
| H | 6 (5.7) |
| I | 41 (38.7) |
*Outcome severity was only rated for RCAs in which solutions were proposed (n=106).
OB/GYN, obstetrics/gynaecology; RCA, root cause analysis.