Descriptive Epidemiology of Safety Events at an Academic Medical Center.

ABSTRACT: Background: Adverse safety events in healthcare are of great concern, and despite an increasing focus on the prevention of error and harm mitigation, the epidemiology of safety events remains incomplete. Methods: We performed an analysis of all reported safety events in an academic medical center using a voluntary incident reporting surveillance system for patient safety. Safety events were classified as: serious (reached the patient and resulted in moderate to severe harm or death); precursor (reached the patient and resulted in minimal or no detectable harm); and near miss (did not reach the patient). Results: During a three-year period, there were 31,817 events reported. Most of the safety events were precursor safety events (reached the patient and resulted in mini

SUBMITTER: Marra AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6982027 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature