Epidemiology of Patient Harms in New Zealand: Protocol of a General Practice Records Review Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Knowing where and why harm occurs in general practice will assist patients, doctors, and others in making informed decisions about the risks and benefits of treatment options. Research to date has been unable to verify the safety of primary health care and epidemiological research about patient harms in general practice is now a top priority for advancing health systems safety.

Objective

We aim to study the incidence, distribution, severity, and preventability of the harms patients experience due to their health care, from the whole-of-health-system lens afforded by electronic general practice patient records.

Methods

"Harm" is defined as disease, injury, disability, suffering, and death, arising from the health system. The study design is a stratified, 2-l

SUBMITTER: Dovey SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5296619 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature