Table 4 Relationship between breach severity, medical departments, area, and personnel involved
From: Confidentiality breaches in clinical practice: what happens in hospitals?
Breach severity (n = 515) n (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Minor (n = 149) | Min R1 (n = 75) | Severe (n = 242) | Sev R2 (n = 49) | p* | |
Medical Departments n (%) | |||||
IM-Ea (n = 141) | 36 (25.5) | 41 (29.1) | 46 (32.6) | 18 (12.8) | <0.001 |
G-Ob (n = 99) | 36 (36.4) | 3 (3.0) | 59 (59.6) | 1 (1.0) | |
PDc (n = 110) | 33 (30.0) | 11 (10.0) | 53 (48.2) | 13 (11.8) | |
G-D Sd (n = 89) | 27 (30.3) | 13 (14.6) | 42 (47.2) | 7 (7.9) | |
M-P Se (n = 39) | 9 (23.1) | 5 (12.8) | 18 (46.2) | 7 (17.9) | |
O. Sf (n = 37) | 8 (21.6) | 2 (5.4) | 24 (64.9) | 3 (8.1) | |
Breach Area n (%) | |||||
Meet-Specif Ag (n = 157) | 26 (16.6) | 8 (5.0) | 107 (68.2) | 16 (10.2) | <0.001 |
Nurs. Sth (n = 125) | 58 (46.4) | 42 (33.6) | 20 (16.0) | 5 (4.0) | |
Pat. Roomi (n = 40) | 3 (7.5) | 0 (0) | 21 (52.5) | 16 (40.0) | |
Publ. Aj (n = 193) | 62 (32.1) | 25 (13.0) | 94 (48.7) | 12 (6.2) | |
Personnel involved in breaches (n = 650) n (%) | |||||
Physician (n = 334) | 87 (26.0) | 63 (18.9) | 145 (43.4) | 39 (11.7) | <0.001 |
Resident (n = 122) | 32 (26.2) | 29 (23.8) | 47 (38.5) | 14 (11.5) | 0.006 |
Nursing Staff (n = 130) | 33 (25.4) | 23 (17.7) | 60 (46.2) | 14 (10.7) | 0.543 |
Nursing As (n = 31) | 9 (29.0) | 2 (6.5) | 15 (48.4) | 5 (16.1) | 0.389 |
Orderly (n = 19) | 10 (52.6) | 3 (15.8) | 5 (26.3) | 1 (5.3) | 0.109 |
Administrative P (n = 7) | 1 (14.3) | 0 (0) | 5 (71.4) | 1 (14.3) | 0.452 |
Student (n = 7) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 6 (85.7) | 1 (14.3) | 0.138 |