Comparison of physicians’ and dentists’ incident reports in open data from the Japan Council for Quality Health Care: a mixed-method study

Table 1 Characteristics of the incidents reported

	Dentists n = 144 n (%)	Physicians n = 5927 n (%)	p value
Occurring time
Weekday	140 (97.2)	5324 (89.8)	0.002^a
Weekend	4 (2.8)	603 (10.2)	0.002^a
Occurring place
Inpatient department	75 (52.1)	5080 (85.7)	< 0.001^b
Outpatient department	69 (47.9)	847 (14.3)	< 0.001^b
Report contents
Treatment	104 (72.2)	3215 (54.2)	< 0.001^a
Medical devices	11 (7.6)	146 (2.5)
Medicine	3 (2.1)	584 (9.9)
Examination	3 (2.1)	557 (9.4)
Drain, tubes	3 (2.1)	388 (6.5)
Others	20 (13.9)	1037 (17.5)
Reporter
Medical intern	12 (8.3)	180 (3.0)	0.002^a
Others	132 (91.7)	5747 (97.0)	0.002^a
Additional medical care attributed to errors
Needed	127 (88.2)	5377 (90.7)	0.308^b
Not needed	17 (11.8)	550 (9.3)	0.308^b
Incident reporting year
2017	40 (27.8)	1762 (29.7)	0.233^b
2018	45 (31.3)	2135 (36.0)
2019	59 (41.0)	2030 (34.3)

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