BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Treatment for gynecological malignancies is complex and may cause unintended or accidental adverse events (AE). We evaluated the costs of hospitalization associated with those AEs among patients who had an abdominal or laparoscopic procedure for proven or suspected gynecological cancer at a tertiary gynecological cancer center in Australia. METHODS Data on AEs were pr...

We read with interest the article ‘‘Medical adverse events in elderly hospitalized patients: A prospective study,’’ by Szlejf et al. (1). Using predictive factors, the authors aimed to determine the frequency of adverse medical events in elderly patients who were admitted to an acute care geriatric unit and the correlation between adverse events and hospital mortality rates. They defined an adv...

Objective: To develop a new method to improve the detection and characterization of adverse drug events (ADEs) in hospital patients. Design: Prospective study of all patients admitted to our hospital over an 18 month period. Setting: LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah, a 520-bed tertiary care center affiliated with the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City. Patients: We develope...

BACKGROUND To determine whether adverse events extend the duration of hospitalization, and to evaluate the effectiveness of medical intervention in ameliorating adverse events and reducing the prolonged hospital stay associated with adverse events. METHODS A single arm intervention study was conducted from October 2012 to March 2014 in the otolaryngology ward of a 614-bed, university-affiliat...

Acknowledgements: We are grateful for funding from the Australian Research Council, and for the Department of Health and Ageing for provision of the data. We are grateful to Desiree McCarthy, infection control manager at Hauck's local hospital, for inspiring the idea for this study, and for comments from Abstract Adverse events in hospitals cause significant morbidity and mortality, and conside...

  Background:    Previous studies suggest total hip arthroplasty may have some benefits compared to hemi-arthroplasty for displaced intracapsular femoral neck fractures in patients more than 60 years of age. The primary research question of our study was whether in-hospital adverse events, post-operative length of stay (LOS) and mortality in patients 60 year of age or older differed between tot...

OBJECTIVES In clinical trials, adverse events are usually self-reported but may be adjudicated if serious or of particular interest. After adjudicating cardiovascular events for a 5-year calcium supplement trial, we observed discrepancies between self-reported and verified events. We systematically analysed those differences to assess their importance. DESIGN Secondary analysis of adverse car...

background: percutaneous transcatheter closure has been proposed as an alternative to surgical closure or long-term anticoagulation in patients with presumed paradoxical embolism and patent foramen ovale (pfo). methods: there were two symptomatic patients (29 and 47 years old) who underwent percutaneous transcatheter closure of pfo after at least two events of cerebral ischemia; one embolic eve...