Acknowledgement of "no fault" medical injury: review of patients' hospital records in New Zealand
Open Access
- 11 January 2003
- Vol. 326 (7380) , 79-80
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.326.7380.79
Abstract
We took data on patient admissions from a representative sample of 13 from the 20 public hospitals with 100 or more beds. The survey population comprised all patients admitted in 1998 (excluding day patients, psychiatric patients, and patients attending just for rehabilitation). We reviewed the records of sampled patients retrospectively in two stages. To qualify as an adverse event, an incident had to have occurred or been detected by a healthcare professional during the sampled admission.1Keywords
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