title: [Adverse events in patients from a pediatric hospital.]
abstract: Background: detection of adverse events is part of the safety management in hospitalized patients. The objective of this study was to describe the incidence of adverse events that occurred in a pediatric hospital. Methods: cross-sectional study of the adverse events occurred in a pediatric hospital from 2007 to 2009. Factors associated with their developmental causes were identified. The statistical analysis was descriptive and bivariate, with contingency tables to estimate the relationship between those factors. A p value = 0.05 was considered significant. Results: a total of 177 adverse events were registered. When they began, human factor occurred in 23 cases (13 %, OR = 1.41, p = 0.001), organizational factor was present in 71 cases (40 %, OR = 1.91, p = 0.236) and technical factor in 46 cases (26 %, OR = 0.87, p = 0.01). Blows or bruises from falls as a result of adverse events occurred in 71 cases (40 %, 95 % CI = 64-78). Conclusions: we found 1.84 events per 100 hospital discharges during the study period. The fall of patients ranked first of the adverse events identified.
authors.affiliation: División de Investigación en Salud, Hospital de Especialidades 2, Centro Médico Nacional del Noroeste, Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, México. jmoapat@gmail.com.
authors.forename: José Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ornelas-Aguirre
authors.forename: José de Jesús
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Arriaga-Dávila
authors.forename: María Isabel
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Domínguez-Serrano
authors.forename: Beatriz Filomena
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Guzmán-Bihouet
authors.forename: Susana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Navarrete-Navarro
keywords: calidad de la atención de salud; child; hospitales pediátricos; hospitals, pediatric; niño; patient safety; quality of health care; seguridad del paciente