Q. In a table, where would you put the row for Miscellaneous or Other if it has numbers large enough that if the rows were ordered by size, it would appear as row 2 or 3?
|
Event type |
No. |
% |
|
Medication |
1,045 |
55 |
|
Other |
503 |
27 |
|
Surgery |
241 |
13 |
|
Dietary |
99 |
5 |
A. Since other implies “not important enough to identify more explicitly,” that line should go at the bottom of the table. And when a miscellaneous category accounts for so large a part of the data, it should be explained in a note.