BACKGROUND Adverse events (AEs) are patient injuries caused by medical care. Previous studies have reported increased mortality rates and prolonged hospital length of stay in patients having an AE. However, these studies have not adequately accounted for potential biases which might influence these associations. We performed this study to measure the independent influence of intensive care unit...

Millions of dollars are spent each year on research to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other diseases in order to improve health outcomes for women in the United States. The impact of this research on longevity and quality of life is significant. However, it pales in comparison to the potential impact of a single known preventable cause of most of these diseases tobacco us...

BACKGROUND Avoidable mortality as an indicator for assessing the health system performance has caught the attention of researchers for a long time. In this study we aimed to compare the health system performance using this indicator in rural and urban areas of one of Iran's southern provinces. METHODS All deaths (29916) which happened during 2004-2011 in Bushehr province were assessed. Nolte ...

A retrospective survey was undertaken of all deaths in children under 5 in the borough of Wolverhampton over the years 1976-82. Cause of death was classified in terms of preventability and possibly preventable deaths studied in more detail. Birth weight in the study group was significantly lower than that of the local population; there was no difference in ethnic origin, but there were signific...

The current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic should not make us forget oth- er non-infectious epidemics that cause disease, disability, and death worldwide, such as smoking. This epidemic s preventable silently responsible for nearly 8 million deaths per year (World Health Organization [WHO], 2019). Smoking is a significant factor in reducing quality life expectancy by 14 years on average (Eu...

Medication constitutes a major clinical intervention that may yield significant benefits for the patients. Yet, it can also cause considerable harm, if inappropriately used/ applied. In the US, adverse drug effects are considered as one of the 10 principal causes of death, which has been estimated to harm at least 1.5 million patients/year, with about 25% of the cases being preventable [1]. Hos...