Healthy Life-Years Lost and Excess Bed-Days Due to 6 Patient Safety Incidents: Empirical Evidence From English Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is little satisfactory evidence on the harm of safety incidents to patients, in terms of lost potential health and life-years.

Objective

To estimate the healthy life-years (HLYs) lost due to 6 incidents in English hospitals between the years 2005/2006 and 2009/2010, to compare burden across incidents, and estimate excess bed-days.

Research design

The study used cross-sectional analysis of the medical records of all inpatients treated in 273 English hospitals. Patients with 6 types of preventable incidents were identified. Total attributable loss of HLYs was estimated through propensity score matching by considering the hypothetical remaining length and quality of life had the incident not occurred.

Results

The 6 incidents resulted in an annual

SUBMITTER: Hauck KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5266418 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature