title: [Patient safety in hospitals].
abstract: In various studies outside the Netherlands, it has been shown that a substantial number of patients suffer some kind of damage during their treatment in a hospital. The incidence of these so-called adverse events varies between 2.9% and 16.6%; of these, estimates between more than a quarter and up to half are considered to have been avoidable. Preventable adverse events can offer a starting point for interventions to increase patient safety. Therefore, a study has been initiated in Dutch hospitals investigating the nature and extent of adverse events and their causes. Important goals of the study are to reach a consensus on basic concepts and to improve the research methodology.
authors.affiliation: VU Medisch Centrum, afd Sociale Geneeskunde en Instituut voor Extramuraal Geneeskundig Onderzoek, Amsterdam.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Cuperus-Bosma
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: van der Wal
mesh_terms: D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D005791:Patient Care / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012449:Safety