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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 c...

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Autores principales: Forster, Alan J, Worthington, Jim R, Hawken, Steven, Bourke, Michael, Rubens, Fraser, Shojania, Kaveh, van Walraven, Carl
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21367769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs.2010.048694