Patterns of unexpected in-hospital deaths: a root cause analysis.

Lawrence A. Lynn; Paul Curry

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Patterns of unexpected in-hospital deaths: a root cause analysis.

March 16, 2011

Lynn LA, Curry P. Patient Saf Surg. 2011;5(1):3.

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This literature review concluded that the history and scientific basis for threshold alarms are quite arbitrary, and new methods and technologies are needed to identify actual patterns of evolving death.

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