Reliability of the assessment of preventable adverse drug events in daily clinical practice.

Jasperien van Doormaal; Peter G M Mol; Patricia M L A van den Bemt; Rianne J. Zaal; Antoine C G Egberts; Jos G W Kosterink; Flora M. Haaijer-Ruskamp

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Reliability of the assessment of preventable adverse drug events in daily clinical practice.

July 31, 2008

van Doormaal J, Mol PGM, van den Bemt PMLA, et al. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2008;17(7):645-54.

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Although most inpatient adverse drug events are considered preventable, this study found that independent reviewers reached only fair agreement regarding the preventability of individual errors.

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