The ability of triggers to retrospectively predict potentially preventable adverse events in a sample of deceased patients

Several trigger systems have been developed to screen medical records of hospitalized patients for adverse events (AEs). Because it's too labor-intensive to screen the records of all patients, usually a sample is screened. Our sample consists of patients who died during their stay because chanc...

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Main Authors: Dorthe O. Klein, Roger J.M.W. Rennenberg, Richard P. Koopmans, Martin H. Prins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-12-01
Series:Preventive Medicine Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335517301596