Patient Safety Events and Harms During Medical and Surgical Hospitalizations for Persons With Serious Mental Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study explored the risk of patient safety events and associated nonfatal physical harms and mortality in a cohort of persons with serious mental illness. This group experiences high rates of medical comorbidity and premature mortality and may be at high risk of adverse patient safety events.

Methods

Medical record review was conducted for medical-surgical hospitalizations occurring during 1994-2004 in a community-based cohort of Maryland adults with serious mental illness. Individuals were eligible if they died within 30 days of a medical-surgical hospitalization and if they also had at least one prior medical-surgical hospitalization within five years of death. All admissions took place at Maryland general hospitals. A case-crossover analysis examined the rel

SUBMITTER: Daumit GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5048490 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature