PMID- 19783072
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100112
LR  - 20100908
IS  - 1532-2939 (Electronic)
IS  - 0195-6701 (Linking)
VI  - 73
IP  - 3
DP  - 2009 Nov
TI  - Hospital adverse events and control charts: the need for a new paradigm.
PG  - 225-31
LID - 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.07.026 [doi]
AB  - Control charts are being increasingly used to summarise sequential rates of 
      hospital adverse events (AEs). They are designed to detect departures from 
      stable, predictable processes and are therefore appropriate when information 
      about the mean value and variability of the relevant time-series data is 
      available, from when the process is or has been in a stable, predictable state. 
      This is often the case with binary data AEs such as surgical site infections and 
      surgical mortality. However, it may not always be possible to determine the 
      stable predictable rate at which events such as patient falls, pressure ulcers, 
      medication errors or new isolates of a multiresistant organism (MRO) occur. 
      Furthermore, such a rate may sometimes not exist, as is frequently the case with 
      antibiotic usage and MRO prevalence data. It may then be better to employ 
      time-series methods to analyse and present the data. A convenient approach is to 
      employ spline-regression or a generalised additive model.
FAU - Morton, A
AU  - Morton A
AD  - Infection Management Services, The Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, 
      Queensland, Australia. amor5444@bigpond.net.au
FAU - Clements, A
AU  - Clements A
FAU - Whitby, M
AU  - Whitby M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20090926
PL  - England
TA  - J Hosp Infect
JT  - The Journal of hospital infection
JID - 8007166
SB  - IM
CIN - J Hosp Infect. 2010 Oct;76(2):178. PMID: 20547431
MH  - Cross Infection/epidemiology/prevention & control
MH  - Data Collection/instrumentation/methods
MH  - Drug Resistance, Multiple
MH  - Humans
MH  - Iatrogenic Disease/epidemiology/prevention & control
MH  - Medical Errors/prevention & control/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Medication Errors/prevention & control/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Risk Management/*methods/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Surgical Wound Infection/epidemiology/prevention & control
MH  - Time Factors
EDAT- 2009/09/29 06:00
MHDA- 2010/01/13 06:00
CRDT- 2009/09/29 06:00
PHST- 2009/02/01 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2009/07/30 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2009/09/29 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/09/29 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/01/13 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0195-6701(09)00340-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.07.026 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Hosp Infect. 2009 Nov;73(3):225-31. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.07.026. Epub 2009 
      Sep 26.