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Adverse events in the paediatric emergency department: a prospective cohort study.
May 20, 2020
Plint AC, Stang A, Newton AS, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2021;30(3):216-227.
This article describes emergency department (ED)-related adverse events in pediatric patients presenting to the ED at a pediatric hospital in Canada over a one-year period. Among 1,319 patients at 3-months follow-up, 33 patients (2.5%) reported an adverse event related to their ED care. The majority of these events (88%) were preventable. Most of the events involved diagnostic (45.5%) or management issues (51.5%) and resulted in symptoms lasting more than one day (72.7%).
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