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Relationship between preventable hospital deaths and other measures of safety: an exploratory study.
June 4, 2014
Hogan H, Healey F, Neale G, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2014;26(3):298-307.
A classic British study found that only 5.2% of in-hospital deaths were considered preventable, challenging much higher estimates from prior studies. According to this follow-up investigation, there was little relationship between other measures of safety (such as hospital-acquired infection rates and safety culture perceptions) and the proportion of preventable deaths at the hospital level.
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