Doctors are to blame for perceived medical adverse events. A cross sectional population study. The Tromso Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most current knowledge of the incidence of medical adverse events (AEs) comes from studies carried out in hospital settings. Little is known about AEs occurring outside hospitals, in spite the fact that most of contacts between patients and health care take place in primary care. Small sample population studies report that 4-49% of the general public have experienced AEs related to their own or family members´ care.The purpose with the present study was to investigate the occurrence of experienced medical adverse events in a large general population.

Methods

We invited 19763 inhabitants of a municipality in northern Norway, age 30 years and older, to fill in a questionnaire. Main outcome measures were life time prevalence of AEs experienced by respondents or their

SUBMITTER: Hotvedt R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3623705 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature