The occurrence of potential patient safety events among trauma patients: are they random?
Chang DC, Handly N, Abdullah F, et al. The occurrence of potential patient safety events among trauma patients: are they random? Ann Surg. 2008;247(2):327-34. doi:10.1097/SLA.0b013e31815aab0d.
Using AHRQ's Patient Safety Indicators, this study discovered that events expected to be random in nature in fact occur with greater likelihood in trauma patients who are male, black, and older than 35 years.