Preventable Adverse Events in Infants Hospitalized With Bronchiolitis
- 1 September 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Pediatrics
- Vol. 116 (3) , 603-608
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2004-2387
Abstract
Objective. To determine the incidence of preventable adverse events (AEs) and near misses (NMs) among infants hospitalized for bronchiolitis at a pediatric tertiary care hospital and the impact of these errors on hospital length of stay (LOS).Keywords
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