Hospital deaths and adverse events in Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adverse events are considered a major international problem related to the performance of health systems. Evaluating the occurrence of adverse events involves, as any other outcome measure, determining the extent to which the observed differences can be attributed to the patient's risk factors or to variations in the treatment process, and this in turn highlights the importance of measuring differences in the severity of the cases. The current study aims to evaluate the association between deaths and adverse events, adjusted according to patient risk factors.

Methods

The study is based on a random sample of 1103 patient charts from hospitalizations in the year 2003 in 3 teaching hospitals in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The methodology involved a retrospec

SUBMITTER: Martins M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3184059 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature