Author(s): Wu G; Eastwood CA; Cheligeer C; Southern DA; Zeng Y; Ghali WA; Bakal JA; Boussat B; Flemons W; Forster A; Xu Y; Quan H;

Background: While the incidence of hospital adverse events appeared to be declining before 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic may have changed its course. This study aimed to evaluate adverse event incidence rates and trends during the pandemic and analyse differences in patient outcomes. Methods: This ...

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Author(s): Wu G; Eastwood C; Zeng Y; Quan H; Long Q; Zhang Z; Ghali WA; Bakal J; Boussat B; Flemons W; Forster A; Southern DA; Knudsen S; Popowich B; Xu Y;

Background: Measurement of care quality and safety mainly relies on abstracted administrative data. However, it is well studied that administrative data-based adverse event (AE) detection methods are suboptimal due to lack of clinical information. Electronic medical records (EMR) have been widely ...

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