Avoiding adverse events

Adverse events and preventable adverse events in children.

CONTEXT Patient safety has been recognized as an important problem in health care. However, knowledge about adverse events and preventable adverse events in children is relatively limited. OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence and types of adverse events and preventable adverse events in children. DESIGN Analysis of pediatric hospitalizations in the Colorado and Utah Medical Practice Study, w...

Combined Leucopenia and Thrombocytopenia Are Possibly Adverse Events of Lamotrigine

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ADVERSE EVENTS Surveillance Systems for Adverse Events and Medical Errors

Ambulance stretcher adverse events.

INTRODUCTION Ambulance personnel use wheeled stretchers for moving patients in the out-of-hospital setting. The nature of adverse events and associated injuries occurring during ambulance stretcher operation was characterised. METHODS Data from the United States Food and Drug Administration's Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database (MAUDE) were used. All adverse events invol...

Reporting of adverse events.

From the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. HEN the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued To Err Is Human,1 the recommendation to expand reporting of serious adverse events and medical errors, particularly mandatory reporting, received the most attention and sparked controversy.2 The American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association raised strong objections, claiming that ma...