Preventable and Potentially Preventable Traumatic Death Rates in Neurosurgery Department: A Single Center Experience

Preventable and Potentially Preventable Traumatic Death Rates in Neurosurgery Department: A Single Center Experience

OBJECTIVE Preventable and potentially preventable traumatic death rates is a method to evaluate the preventability of the traumatic deaths in emergency medical department. To evaluate the preventability of the traumatic deaths in patients who were admitted to neurosurgery department, we performed this study. METHODS A retrospective review identified 52 patients who admitted to neurosurgery de...

Identifying Potentially Preventable Readmissions

The potentially preventable readmission (PPR) method uses administrative data to identify hospital readmissions that may indicate problems with quality of care. The PPR logic determines whether the reason for readmission is clinically related to a prior admission, and therefore potentially preventable. The likelihood of a PPR was found to be dependent on severity of illness, extremes of age, an...

Hurried Psychiatric Labelling: A Preventable Medical Error in an Emergency Department

Preventable morbidity at a mature trauma center.

OBJECTIVE To analyze the preventable and potentially preventable complications occurring at a mature level I trauma center. DESIGN Retrospective review. SETTING Academic level I trauma center. PATIENTS The study included 35 311 trauma registry patients. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The cause, effect on outcome, preventability (preventable, potentially preventable, or nonpreventable), and loop ...

Sudden death and sport--preventable or inevitable.

Physical exertion is not now an essential part of many people's working existence and because hard physical labour was the lot of the "labouring classes" from which many people have tried to escape by getting more genteel occupations, the correlates of exertion, heavy breathing and sweating are considered "not nice" and associated with the lower orders. A gentleman no less than a lady does not ...