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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST oOR0xu8h. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives : To determine the fraction of hospital deaths potentially associated with the occurrence of adverse events (AE). Design : A paired (1 : 1) case-control study. Setting : An 800-bed, teaching tertiary care hospital. Patients : All patients older than 14 years admitted to the hospital between January 1,1990, and January 1,1991, were eligible. All 524 consecutive deaths (death rate of 3.74%) that occurred in the hospital comprised the case group. For each case, a control patient was matched for both primary diagnosis on admission and admission date. Measurements : The proportion of hospital deaths associated with adverse events (defined as problems of any nature and seriousness faced by the patient during hospitalization, and potentially traceable to clinical or administrative management) was estimated from attributable risks adjusted for age, sex, service, severity of illness, length of stay, and quality of the medical record. (...)
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