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Incidence of Adverse Events and Negligence in Hospitalized Patients

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Estimate the incidence of adverse events and negligence in hospitalized patients.
Reviewed 30,121 randomly selected records from 51 acute care hospitals in New York State in 1984.
Developed population estimates of injuries and computed rates by patient age, sex, and physician specialties.
Adverse events occurred in 3.7% of hospitalizations (95% CI, 3.2 to 4.2).
27.6% of adverse events were due to negligence (95% CI, 22.5 to 32.6).
Among 2,671,863 discharges, there were an estimated 98,609 adverse events and 27,179 involving negligence.

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Randomized trial estimates adverse events in hospitalized patients, indicating significant injury due to negligence.

Brennan et al. (1991) studied this question.

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