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The impact of adverse events in the intensive care unit on hospital mortality and length of stay |
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| Authors: | Alan J Forster Kwadwo Kyeremanteng Jon Hooper Kaveh G Shojania Carl van Walraven |
| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada;(2) Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada;(3) Department of Critical Care, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada;(4) Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;(5) Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada |
| Abstract: | BackgroundAdverse events (AEs) are patient injuries caused by medical care. Previous studies have reported increased mortality rates and prolonged hospital length of stay in patients having an AE. However, these studies have not adequately accounted for potential biases which might influence these associations. We performed this study to measure the independent influence of intensive care unit (ICU) based AEs on in-hospital mortality and hospital length of stay. |
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