PMID- 8332330
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19930819
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 0097-5990 (Print)
IS  - 0097-5990 (Linking)
VI  - 19
IP  - 5
DP  - 1993 May
TI  - Preventing medical injury.
PG  - 144-9
AB  - Although adverse events (AEs) are not uncommon in hospitalized patients, they are 
      by no means inevitable. A review of records from a population-based study in New 
      York revealed that nearly 4% of hospitalized patients suffered AEs. Two-thirds of 
      those events were considered to be caused by errors in management, most of which 
      were not because of negligence. A large part of the reason preventable AEs occur 
      is that today's medical care is extremely complex, involving a variety of 
      personnel, equipment, and procedures. By seeking to eliminate errors in the 
      system of providing care and raising the awareness of health care providers about 
      the potential for AEs, programs can be established to address and possibly remedy 
      this serious problem.
FAU - Leape, L L
AU  - Leape LL
AD  - Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 
      Boston, MA 02115.
FAU - Lawthers, A G
AU  - Lawthers AG
FAU - Brennan, T A
AU  - Brennan TA
FAU - Johnson, W G
AU  - Johnson WG
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - QRB Qual Rev Bull
JT  - QRB. Quality review bulletin
JID - 7504127
SB  - IM
MH  - Accident Prevention
MH  - Accidents/economics/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Cost of Illness
MH  - Diagnostic Errors
MH  - Disabled Persons/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Financing, Personal/economics/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Hospital Mortality
MH  - Hospitals/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Humans
MH  - Iatrogenic Disease/epidemiology/*prevention & control
MH  - Malpractice/economics/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Medical Audit
MH  - Medication Errors/economics/statistics & numerical data
MH  - New York/epidemiology
MH  - Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
MH  - Peer Review
MH  - Risk Management/*methods
MH  - Wounds and Injuries/economics/epidemiology/*prevention & control
EDAT- 1993/05/01 00:00
MHDA- 1993/05/01 00:01
CRDT- 1993/05/01 00:00
PHST- 1993/05/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1993/05/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1993/05/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - S0097-5990(16)30608-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s0097-5990(16)30608-x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - QRB Qual Rev Bull. 1993 May;19(5):144-9. doi: 10.1016/s0097-5990(16)30608-x.