Unexpected ward deaths: preventable?
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Unexpected ward deaths: preventable?
Methods In our center, deaths are systematically reported to the « Quality & Patient Safety Department » via a questionnaire inquiring into the causes, circumstances and characteristics of death. Medical records of «unexpected » deaths (UD) (= “death that was not expected to occur at that time or/and under these circumstances”) were reviewed, after exclusion of patients with DNR orders. We anal...
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عنوان ژورنال: Intensive Care Medicine Experimental
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2197-425X
DOI: 10.1186/2197-425x-3-s1-a66