OBJECTIVES To estimate the incidence, nature and consequences of adverse events and preventable adverse events in Swedish hospitals. DESIGN A three-stage structured retrospective medical record review based on the use of 18 screening criteria. SETTING Twenty-eight Swedish hospitals. Population A representative sample (n = 1967) of the 1.2 million Swedish hospital admissions between October ...

BACKGROUND Most maternal deaths in developing countries can be prevented. China is among the 13 countries with the most maternal deaths; however, there has been a marked decrease in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) over the last 3 decades. China's reduction in the MMR has contributed significantly to the global decline of the MMR. This study examined the geographic and rural-urban differences...

Drs Shojania and Dixon-Woods seem to misunderstand the nature of preventable adverse events originating in hospitals as characterised in my study from the Journal of Patient Safety (JPS) in 2013. I do not appreciate being lumped in with the study by Makary and Daniel for their criticisms. In fact, I wrote a serious criticism on the Makary and Daniel study after it was published. Although Makary...

Background: Evidence suggests that gout is associated with high health care costs and many inpatient admissions are preventable (1). Understanding the driver of will allow more targeted intervention. Objectives: To examine factors service utilisation cost in patients admitted to hospital gout, using whole-population linked hospital, WA cancer registration, Emergency Department (ED) death data (...

M1 reported in 1970 that 193 of a cohort of 2,600 casualties that were killed in action in Vietnam died of isolated extremity hemorrhage. The percentage of fatalities that resulted from exsanguination from extremity wounds was 7.9%; this was the leading cause of preventable death among US military casualties in the Vietnam War. Maughon commented at the time that little progress had been made in...

OBJECTIVES To review the incidence and characteristics of preventable childhood deaths in an urban population in the UK and to determine whether the excess of preventable deaths seen previously in Asian girls still exists. DESIGN A retrospective survey of childhood deaths from 1996-2002 classified in terms of preventability and compared with a previous study conducted 20 years earlier from 19...

OBJECTIVE Despite several limitations, the Trauma Injury Severity Score (TRISS) is normally used to evaluate trauma systems. The aim of this study was to evaluate the preventable trauma death rate using the TRISS method in severe trauma patients with traumatic brain injury using our emergency department data. METHODS The use of the TRISS formula has been suggested to consider definitively pre...

INTRODUCTION Rates of potentially preventable hospitalisations (PPH) are used as a proxy measure of effectiveness of, or access to community-based health services. The validity of PPH as an indicator in Australia has not been confirmed. Available evidence suggests that patient-related, clinician-related and systems-related factors are associated with PPH, with differences between rural and metr...

Gender based violence (GBV) is a preventable and serious human rights violation whereby an individual harmed on their gender. 1 The can be perpetrated physically, sexually, mentally or financially. This includes domestic violence, rape, feticide/infanticide female genital mutilation. As to expected, victims of GBV often suffer from life-long consequences at times even death.