The preliminary development and testing of a global trigger tool to detect error and patient harm in primary-care records

Table 6 Classification of harm

Type of harm	No harmed	Examples
Medication-related	38	Anaemia requiring transfusion secondary to inappropriate warfarin dosage
Administrative	14	Patient wrongly coded as deceased
Procedural	8	Haematoma following venepuncture
Other	4	Missed diagnosis of pneumonia

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