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Confidential clinician-reported surveillance of adverse events among medical inpatients.

Weingart SN, Ship AN, Aronson MD. Confidential clinician-reported surveillance of adverse events among medical inpatients. J Gen Intern Med. 2003;15(7). doi:10.1046/j.1525-1497.2000.06269.x.

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March 27, 2005
Weingart SN, Ship AN, Aronson MD. J Gen Intern Med. 2003;15(7).
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Adverse events in hospitalized patients often go unrecognized or unreported. The authors developed a confidential reporting method for identifying adverse events in a medicine unit of a teaching hospital. House officers were interviewed during morning rounds and by email, and the interviews were compared with hospital incident reports and patients’ medical records. The study found that adverse events occurred in 2.6% of all admissions. The most common problems were related to inadequate evaluation of the patient, failure to monitor or follow-up, and failure of the laboratory to perform a test. The hospital incident reporting system only identified 1 out of 57 house officer-reported adverse events. The authors propose using confidential peer interviews of front-line providers to improve identification of medical errors and to improve overall quality of care.

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Weingart SN, Ship AN, Aronson MD. Confidential clinician-reported surveillance of adverse events among medical inpatients. J Gen Intern Med. 2003;15(7). doi:10.1046/j.1525-1497.2000.06269.x.

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