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Morbidity and mortality caused by noncompliance with California hospital licensure: immediate jeopardies in California hospitals, 2007-2017.
March 9, 2022
Zheng MY, Lui H, Patino G, et al. J Patient Saf. 2022;18(2):e401-e406.
California law requires adverse events that led to serious injury or death because of hospital noncompliance to be reported to the state licensing agency. These events are referred to as “immediate jeopardy.” Using publicly available data, this study analyzed all immediate jeopardy cases between 2007 and 2017. Of the 385 immediate jeopardy cases, 36.6% led to patient death, and the most common category was surgical.
