Although adverse events (AEs) are not uncommon in hospitalized patients, they are by no
means inevitable. A review of records from a population-based study in New York revealed …

Background: Complication rates after trauma may serve as important indicators of quality of
care. Meaningful performance benchmarks for complication rates require reference …

Background The use of surgical outcome in the comparative assessment of the quality of
surgical care is predicted on the development of proper models that adjust for the severity of …

Background: The Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), an administrative data-based tool
developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, are increasingly being used …

Background. The comorbidity variables that constitute the Charlson index are widely used in
health care research using administrative data. However, little is known about the validity of …

Background: Research into adverse events (AEs) has highlighted the need to improve
patient safety. AEs are unintended injuries or complications resulting in death, disability or …

Executive Summary This his Fact Book examines one critical area of health care quality:
potentially preventable hospitalizations, or hospitalizations that may be preventable with …

As the number of preventable trauma-related deaths plateaus as a result of trauma system
development, new directions for quality improvement in trauma care must come from …

Background: Despite more than three decades of research on iatrogenesis, surgical adverse
events have not been subjected to detailed study to identify their characteristics. This …

Adverse events arising from health‐care management, rather than a disease process, may
place as great a burden on society as all other forms of injury put together. By analysing data …