Assessing adverse events among home care clients in three Canadian provinces using chart review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objectives of this study were to document the incidence rate and types of adverse events (AEs) among home care (HC) clients in Canada; identify factors contributing to these AEs; and determine to what extent evidence of completion of incident reports were documented in charts where AEs were found.

Methods

This was a retrospective cohort study based on expert chart review of a random sample of 1200 charts of clients discharged in fiscal year 2009-2010 from publicly funded HC programmes in Manitoba, Quebec and Nova Scotia, Canada.

Results

The results show that 4.2% (95% CI 3.0% to 5.4%) of HC patients discharged in a 12-month period experienced an AE. Adjusting to account for clients with lengths of stay in HC of less than 1 year, the AE incidence rate pe

SUBMITTER: Blais R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3888609 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature