Table 6 Associations of diagnostic errors with characteristics in relation to patients’ age, gender, and medical settings in cardiovascular, infectious and neoplastic diseases. Data in each cell was expressed as number of cases
From: Diagnostic errors in fatal medical malpractice cases in Shanghai, China: 1990–2015
Characteristics | Cardiovascular disease (n = 137) | Infectious disease (n = 134) | Neoplastic disease (n = 74) | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I | II | III | IV | V | p value | I | II | III | IV | V | p value | I | II | III | IV | V | p value | |
Age, years | 0.01 | 0.80 | 0.39 | |||||||||||||||
< 40 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
[40, 60) | 9 | 32 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 4 | |||
≥ 60 | 7 | 24 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 1 | |||
Gender | 0.92 | 0.74 | 0.62 | |||||||||||||||
Female | 8 | 28 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 18 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 0 | |||
Male | 11 | 42 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 27 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 13 | 7 | |||
Medical settings | 0.32 | 0.78 | 0.26 | |||||||||||||||
Tertiary | 10 | 45 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 22 | 16 | 8 | 19 | 11 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 20 | 7 | |||
Secondary | 9 | 22 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | |||
Primary | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||