Dataset for "Validity and reliability of a method to estimate the potential harm of medication errors by considering both the likelihood and degree of harm"

This dataset contains the responses to two surveys that were used to assess the validity and reliability of a new 'risk score tool' that was designed to estimate the potential harm of a medication error by estimating the probability of a range of potential consequences. The risk score tool described five levels of potential harm. Judges estimated the likelihood of harm matching each level, from which a risk score (0-10) was calculated. Thirty judges (doctors, nurses and pharmacists) used this risk score and the existing Dean and Barber scale to estimate the potential harm of 50 medication errors, 15 with a known outcome (Survey 1). Two weeks later, the judges re-scored ten of the errors (Survey 2).