In-hospital adverse events affect nearly 10% of patients, highlighting a significant need for preventative interventions targeting operation- and drug-related events.
Adverse events during hospital admission affect nearly one out of 10 patients. A substantial part of these events are preventable. Since a large proportion of the in-hospital events are operation- or drug-related, interventions aimed at preventing these events have the potential to make a substantial difference.
Vries et al. (Sun,) studied this question.