Neonatal nasogastric tube feeding in a low-resource African setting – using ergonomics methods to explore quality and safety issues in task sharing

Table 1 Definition of probability, criticality and supervision levels

Task attribute	Low	Medium	High
Probability	Never known to happen	Known to happen occasionally	Known to happen frequently
Criticality/risk	No risk of injury to patient if task is incorrectly done or missed	Risk of minor injury to patient if task is incorrectly done or missed	Risk of serious injury or death of patient if task is incorrectly done or missed
Supervision^a	Supervision done by the nurse for only part of the implementation process of the task	Supervision done by the nurse for about half of the implementation process of the task	Supervision done by the nurse for the entire implementation process of the task

^aDuring analysis, ‘low’ and ‘medium’ levels of supervision were combined into one category of ‘low/medium’

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