The impact of adverse events in the intensive care unit on hospital mortality and length of stay

BACKGROUND: Adverse events (AEs) are patient injuries caused by medical care. Previous studies have reported increased mortality rates and prolonged hospital length of stay in patients having an AE. However, these studies have not adequately accounted for potential biases which might influence these...

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Autores principales: Forster, Alan J, Kyeremanteng, Kwadwo, Hooper, Jon, Shojania, Kaveh G, van Walraven, Carl
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2621200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19091089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-259

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2621200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19091089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-259

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