The Nature of Adverse Events in Hospitalized Patients
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- 7 February 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 324 (6), 377-384
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199102073240605
Abstract
In a sample of 30,195 randomly selected hospital records, we identified 1133 patients (3.7 percent) with disabling injuries caused by medical treatment. We report here an analysis of these adverse events and their relation to error, negligence, and disability.Keywords
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