Assessing the economic impact of adverse events in Spanish hospitals by using administrative data;Impacto económico de los eventos adversos en los hospitales españoles a partir del Conjunto Mínimo Básico de Datos

Gaceta Sanitaria

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 48-54

  Allué, Natalia ^a,b,c   Chiarello, Pietro ^a,c   Bernal Delgado, Enrique ^d,e   Castells, Xavier ^a,e   Giraldo, Priscila ^a   Martínez, Natalia ^d   Sarsanedas, Eugenia ^a   Cots, Francesc ^a,e  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN SANITARIA ARAGÓN IIS ARAGÓN   (Spain)

^e Red de Investigacion en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Cronicas REDISSEC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Economic evaluation; Economic impact; Patient safety indicators; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

AGED; COST; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN;

AGED; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN;

EID: 84891495487     PISSN: 02139111     EISSN: 15781283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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