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Incidence, preventability and consequences of adverse events in older people — results of a retrospective case-note review
Author(s)	A B A Sari, Alison Cracknell, Trevor A Sheldon
Journal title	Age and Ageing, vol 37, no 3, May 2008
Pages	pp 265-269
Source	http://www.ageing.oupjournals.org
Keywords	In-patients ; Infectious diseases ; Preventative medicine ; Medical care ; Quality ; Clinical surveys.
Annotation	An adverse event can be defined as any unintended injury or complication to a patient that results in harm, and is caused at least partly by health care, rather than the disease process itself. In a random sample of 1006 non-psychiatric patients in a large NHS hospital in England, 45 (13.5%) of 332 patients aged 75+ and 42 (5.2%) of 674 patients aged under 75 had at least one adverse event. There was a significantly raised risk of experiencing an adverse event with increasing age. There was no statistically significant difference to preventability of adverse events and also in experiencing disability or death as a result of an adverse event by age after adjustment for potential confounders. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-080618210 A
Classmark	LF7: CJA: LK2: LK: 59: 3G
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