Measuring safety of healthcare: an exercise in futility?

Khara Sauro; William A. Ghali; Henry Thomas Stelfox

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Measuring safety of healthcare: an exercise in futility?

January 15, 2020

Sauro K, Ghali WA, Stelfox HT. BMJ Qual Saf. 2019;29(4):341-344.

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This commentary discusses the challenges associated with detecting and measuring adverse events, the limitations of measurement alone, and the existing methodologies that can be leveraged to improve the accuracy of adverse event detection.

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