A multi-site assessment of inpatient safety event rates during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

Benjamin D Pollock; Hayley J Dykhoff; Laura E Breeher; Tad M Mabry; Pablo Moreno Franco; Katherine H Noe; Kannan Ramar; Timothy Young; Sean C Dowdy

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A multi-site assessment of inpatient safety event rates during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

January 18, 2023

Pollock BD, Dykhoff HJ, Breeher LE, et al. Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes. 2023;7(1):51-57.

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The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically impacted healthcare delivery and raised concerns about exacerbating existing patient safety challenges. Based on incident reporting data from three large US academic medical centers from January 2020 through December 2021, researchers found that patient safety event rates did not increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, but they did observe a relationship between staffing levels during the pandemic and patient safety event rates.

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