Incidence of adverse events and negligence in hospitalized patients: results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study I*
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Summary
There is a substantial amount of injury to patients from medical management, and many injuries are the result of substandard care.
- Type
- letter
- Published
- 2004-04-01
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- 4,293
- References
- 45
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W70273200
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3101439
Keywords
Medicine, Adverse effect, Incidence (geometry), Confidence interval, Emergency medicine
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