Adverse events in a Tunisian hospital: results of a retrospective cohort study

Abstract

This study confirms that preventable AEs were not rare in our context. They caused human harm and consumed a significant part of hospital resources. Thus, targeted interventions are needed.

Adverse Events in Korean Traditional Medicine Hospitals: A Retrospective Medical Record Review

“…Sample size (n = 1017) was estimated based on the annual number of inpatients in the study hospitals at ±2% precision with 0.05 probability of type 1 error, assuming a rate of AEs of 15%. 16 An a priori sample size of 1200 was determined, considering incomplete records and the number of records required for interrater reliability measurement.…”

“…28 Adverse events with ratings of 4 or higher were deemed preventable. 15,16 Patient and Health-care Utilization Variables…”

“…9,10 The occurrence of AEs is associated with patient and health care utilization characteristics. 9,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Such factors include patients' age, sex, disease conditions including severity and comorbidity, type of admission, clinical department, treatment by multiple specialties, and length of hospital stay. For instance, patients older than 35 years had increased risk of AEs, 12 and those with comorbidities had a higher incidence of AEs.…”

“…13,14,17 Furthermore, elective admissions of older patients predicted preventable AEs, 20 and AEs were more common in surgical care than in medical care. 16,18,19 Patients treated by various clinical specialties had a higher incidence of AEs. 11 Length of hospital stay was longer in patients with AEs.…”

Les évènements iatrogènes en réanimation : incidence, facteurs de risques et impacts sur la morbi-mortalité

“…L'incidence des EI varie de 7 à 39 % [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. En Tunisie, les chiffres d'incidence varient de 10 à 37,5 % [14][15][16]. Les complications des techniques invasives et les infections nosocomiales sont les plus fréquemment observées en réani-mation [17][18][19][20][21].…”