In-hospital adverse events affect nearly 10% of patients, highlighting a significant need for preventative interventions targeting operation- and drug-related events.
Requires immediate hospital safety interventions targeting operations and drugs; confirms high adverse event burden and extends evidence for prevention trials.
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.
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