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Comparing rates of adverse events and medical errors on inpatient psychiatric units at Veterans Health Administration and community-based general hospitals.
November 6, 2019
Cullen SW, Xie M, Vermeulen JM, et al. Med Care. 2019;57(11):913-920.
Various factors can impact patient safety risk in psychiatric settings. This study assessed the prevalence of AEs and MEs in community hospitals and Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals and found that psychiatric inpatients at community hospitals were twice as likely to experience these patient safety events than VHA inpatients, even after controlling for patient and hospital characteristics.
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