Disclosure of hospital adverse events and its association with patients' ratings of the quality of care

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 1888-1894

  López, Lenny ^a   Weissman, Joel S ^a,c,e   Schneider, Eric C ^b   Weingart, Saul N ^d   Cohen, Amy P ^c   Epstein, Arnold M ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e OAAC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 70449638396     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.387     Document Type: Article

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