STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency, severity, preventability, and classification of adverse drug events resulting in hospitalization, and to identify any patient, prescriber, drug, and system factors associated with these events. DESIGN Prospective, observational study. SETTING Internal medicine service of a large tertiary care hospital in Canada. PATIENTS A total of 565 consecut...

OBJECTIVE to gain insight into the scale, nature, preventability and causes of adverse events in hospitalised older patients. DESIGN a three-stage retrospective, structured, medical record review study of 7,917 records of patients admitted in 21 Dutch hospitals in 2004. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES incidence, preventability, clinical process category, consequences and causes of adverse events in h...

BACKGROUND Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) constitute an enormous burden for the society. The aim of the present study was to detect, document, assess and report the suspected ADRs and preparation of guidelines to minimize the incidence of ADRs. METHODS A prospective-observational study was conducted in the Department of General Medicine of a tertiary care hospital for 12 months from April 2008...

AIMS To identify substantive findings of potential clinical and managerial significance from a regional feasibility study of adverse events (AEs). METHODS A standardised protocol using structured implicit review was applied to 142 AEs generated in an audit study of three public hospitals in the Auckland region for admissions in 1995. Areas of potential significance addressed were: timing, loc...

Adverse events (AEs) occur in health care and may result in harm to patients especially in the field of surgery. Our objective was to analyze AEs in surgical patient care from a nationwide perspective and to analyze the frequency of AEs that may be preventable. In total 19,141 randomly selected admissions in 63 Swedish hospitals were reviewed each month during 2013 using a 2-stage record review...

As part of a larger study, predictors of self-blame were investigated in a sample of 149 undergraduate sexual assault survivors. Each participant completed questionnaires regarding their preassault, peritraumatic, and postassault experiences and participated in an individual interview. Results confirmed the central hypothesis that, although several established correlates independently relate to...