Results Of The Harvard Medical Practice Study I

Incidence of adverse events and negligence in …

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Background: As part of an interdisciplinary study of medical injury and malpractice litigation, we estimated the incidence of adverse events, defined as injuries …

HARVARD MEDICAL PRACTICE STUDY | BMJ Quality …

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The Harvard Medical Practice Study (HMPS) 1,2 was not the first study to examine adverse events in healthcare organizations, but it established the standard by …

The Nature of Adverse Events in Hospitalized Patients …

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Incidence of adverse events and negligence in …

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Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study I. | PSNet. Incidence of adverse events and negligence in hospitalized patients. Results of the Harvard Medical …

Incidence of Adverse Events and Negligence in …

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The burden of iatrogenic injury was thus large. Even more disturbing was the number of adverse events caused by negligence. We estimated that …

Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. hospitalized patients experience …

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Nearly 1 in 4 patients who are admitted to hospitals in the U.S. will experience harm, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine . The stark findings...

(PDF) Harvard medical practice study - ResearchGate

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The Harvard Medical Practice Study (HMPS) (Brennan et al., 1991) was a significant study in developing methods for measuring adverse events in healthcare organisations (Baker, 2004). It ...

Errors in Health Care: A Leading Cause of Death and Injury

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In a study of 182 deaths in 12 hospitals from three conditions (cerebrovascular accident, pneumonia, or myocardial infarction), it was found that at least 14 percent and possibly as many as 27 percent of the …

Incidence of adverse events and negligence in …

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Results: Adverse events occurred in 3.7% of the hospitalizations (95% confidence interval 3.2 to 4.2), and 27.6% of the adverse events were due to negligence (95% confidence …

SafeCare Study - rmf.harvard.edu

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The resulting report was the most extensive study to date focused on medical injury and litigation that had been done at that time. Published in 1991, it served as a …