Higher incidence of adverse events in isolated patients compared with non-isolated patients: a cohort study
| Autor: | María Teresa Gea Velázquez de Castro, Maria Pastor-Valero, Fátima Jiménez-Pericás, Carlos Aibar Remón, Juan José Miralles, María del Carmen Meyer García, Jesús Maria Aranaz Andrés |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | BMJ Open, Vol 10, Iss 10 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2019-0352 2044-6055 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035238 |
| Popis: | Objective To determine whether isolated patients admitted to hospital have a higher incidence of adverse events (AEs), to identify their nature, impact and preventability.Design Prospective cohort study with isolated and non-isolated patients.Setting One public university hospital in the Valencian Community (southeast Spain).Participants We consecutively collected 400 patients, 200 isolated and 200 non-isolated, age ≥18 years old, to match according to date of entry, admission department, sex, age (±5 years) and disease severity from April 2017 to October 2018. Exclusion criteria: patients age |
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