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Table 2 Knowledge about Medication Administration, Clinical Decision-Making, Nurse -physician Collaboration Satisfaction, and Perceived Barriers to Reporting Medication Administration Errors

From: Canonical correlations between individual self-efficacy/organizational bottom-up approach and perceived barriers to reporting medication errors: a multicenter study

Variables (number of items)

Mean ± SD

(N = 218)

Actual range

Knowledge about medication administration (20)

0.65 ± 0.15

0.10~0.90

Clinical decision-making (24)

2.93 ± 0.11

2.63~3.42

Nurse -physician collaboration satisfaction (8)

4.01 ± 0.97

1.00~6.50

Perceived barriers to reporting medication administration error (16)

2.68 ± 0.42

1.31~3.75

 Fear (5)

3.35 ± 0.65

1.60~5.00

 Disagreement over medication error (5)

2.17 ± 0.53

1.00~4.00

 Reporting effort (2)

2.86 ± 0.73

1.00~5.00

 Administrative responses (4)

2.96 ± 0.59

1.00~5.00