Reviewing inpatient deaths using the Global Trigger Tool reveals a high rate of severe adverse events contributing to mortality that would otherwise go undetected.
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May indicate underrecognized harm near death; Level 4 data leave causal links and practice changes open.
Patients dying in hospitals experience seven times the rate of severe adverse events. Reviewing all inpatient death by the Global Trigger Tool method discloses new valid and reliable data of severe adverse events contributing to death which otherwise would be undetected.
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