Excess cost and length of stay associated with voluntary patient safety event reports in hospitals.

Andrew R Paradis; Valerie T Stewart; K. Bruce Bayley; Allen Brown; Andrew J Bennett

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Excess cost and length of stay associated with voluntary patient safety event reports in hospitals.

January 28, 2009

Paradis AR, Stewart VT, Bayley KB, et al. American Journal of Medical Quality. 2009;24(1).

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In this study of voluntary incident reports from three community hospitals, adverse events were associated with significant increases in hospital length of stay and costs.

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