Relationship between preventable hospital deaths and other measures of safety: an exploratory study.

OBJECTIVE: To explore associations between the proportion of hospital deaths that are preventable and other measures of safety. DESIGN: Retrospective case record review to provide estimates of preventable death proportions. Simple monotonic correlations using Spearman's rank correlation coeffic...

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Main Authors: Hogan, H, Healey, F, Neale, G, Thomson, R, Vincent, C, Black, N
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2014