Health Care Provider Factors Associated with Patient-Reported Adverse Events and Harm.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients can provide valuable information missing from traditional sources of safety data, thus adding new insights about factors that lead to preventable harm. In this study, researchers determined associations between patient-reported contributory factors and patient-reported harms experienced after an adverse event (AE).

Methods

A secondary analysis was conducted of a national sample of patient-reported AEs (surgical, medication, diagnostic, and hospital-acquired infection) gathered through an online questionnaire between January 2010 and February 2016. Generalized logit multivariable regression was used to assess the association between patient-reported contributory factors and patient-reported harms (grouped as nonphysical harm only, physical harm only, physi

SUBMITTER: Giardina TD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7720932 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature