Surveillance of Medical Device–Related Hazards and Adverse Events in Hospitalized Patients

Medical adverse events in elderly hospitalized patients: A prospective study

OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency of medical adverse events in elderly patients admitted to an acute care geriatric unit, the predictive factors of occurrence, and the correlation between adverse events and hospital mortality rates. METHODS This prospective study included 171 admissions of patients aged 60 years and older in the acute care geriatric unit in a teaching hospital in Brazil b...

ADVERSE EVENTS Surveillance Systems for Adverse Events and Medical Errors

Incidence of adverse events and negligence in hospitalized patients.

Background. As part of an interdisciplinary study of medical injury and malpractice litigation, we estimated the incidence of adverse events, defined as injuries caused by medical management, and of the subgroup of such injuries that resulted from negligent or substandard care. Methods. We reviewed 30,121 randomly selected records from 51 randomly selected acute care, nonpsychiatric hospitals i...

Automated surveillance for adverse events in hospitalized patients: back to the future.

T he goal of patient safety efforts is to reduce the harm we do to our patients while providing them with the care they need, and recognizing the true nature and sources of harm is critical to this endeavor. The paper by Szekendi et al in this issue of QSHC describes a return to automated methods for detecting adverse events, and provides an opportunity to review the evolution of adverse event ...

Adverse drug events in hospitalized patients with chronic kidney disease.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a common cause of hospitalization and in-hospital complications. The aim of this study was to determine the rates, types, severity and preventability of pre-admission and in-hospital ADEs in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). METHODS This study was conducted at the nephrology unit at Penang General Hospital. A random sample of 3...