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| Scale, nature, preventability and causes of adverse events in hospitalised older patients | | Author(s) | Hanneke Merten, Marieke Zegers, Martine C de Bruijne, Cordula Wagner |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 42, no 1, January 2013 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, January 2013 |
| Pages | pp 87-93 |
| Source | http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.bgs.org.uk/ |
| Keywords | General hospitals ; In-patients ; Drugs ; Accidents ; Infectious diseases ; Death ; Preventative medicine. |
| Annotation | The present study aimed to gain insight into the scale, nature, preventability and causes of adverse events in hospitalised older patients. The study used a three-stage retrospective, structured, medical record review study of 7,917 records of patients admitted to 21 Dutch hospitals in 2004. It looked at the incidence, preventability, clinical process category, consequences and causes of adverse events in hospitalised patients of 65 years and older, compared with patients younger than 65. Study results showed that adverse events and preventable adverse events occur significantly more often in older patients than in younger patients. In older patients, the adverse events were more often related to medication. An exploration of the causes revealed that the inability to apply existing knowledge to a new and complex situation contributes more often to the occurrence of adverse events in older patients than in younger patients. The authors argue that in order to reduce the number of adverse events in older patients in the future, more particular training of hospital staff in geriatric medicine is required, with a specific focus on medication. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130104209 A |
| Classmark | LD3: LF7: LLD: OKA: CJA: CW: LK2 |
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