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Table 4 Most common Primary Incident Types

From: Analysis of applying a patient safety taxonomy to patient and clinician-reported incident reports during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods study

Patient-reported incidents

n (%)

GP-reported incidents

n (%)

Access to healthcare

39 (27)

Diagnosis and assessment

52 (44)

Environmental hazard

39 (27)

Treatment and procedure

21 (18)

Staff professionalism and equipment

21 (14)

Investigation errors

17 (15)