Question

1. A hospital is tracking their medication errors to determine where to focus their process improvement efforts. Create a Pareto chart for medication errors using the following data. There is a problem analysis using Pareto chart template located under the “Resources” tab in Canvas that is optional to use.

Error	Count
Dose missed	92
Wrong time	83
Wrong drug	76
Over dose	59
Wrong patient	53
Wrong route	27
Wrong calculation	16
Duplicated drugs	9
Under dose	7
Wrong IV rate	4
Technique error	3
Unauthorized drug	1

Answer 1

As seen from above table;

Category A = Top 75% = Dose missed, Wrong time, wrong drug, overdose

Category B = next 20% = Wrong patient, wrong route, wrong calculation

Category C = other reasons = balance 5%

We prepare pareto chart as follows: