Using prospective clinical surveillance to identify adverse events in hospital
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Using prospective clinical surveillance to identify adverse events in hospital
BACKGROUND To improve patient safety, organisations must systematically measure avoidable harms. Clinical surveillance-consisting of prospective case finding and peer review-could improve identification of adverse events (AEs), preventable AEs and potential AEs. The authors sought to describe and compare findings of clinical surveillance on four clinical services in an academic hospital. METHOD...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Quality & Safety
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2044-5415,2044-5423
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs.2010.048694