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Measuring and Assessing Adverse Medical Events

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The measurement of safety in healthcare is challenging, yet the simple actions of identifying and measuring adverse events, accessible to all professionals, has the potential to be highly beneficial. The chapter provides an overall view of pragmatic concepts, methods and key points that may serve this objective.

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  1. HAS, 2 avenue du Stade de France, Saint-Denis La Plaine, 93218, France

    René Amalberti MD, PhD

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  1. School of Medicine,, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Paul R. Barach

  2. Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery,, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, All Children’s Hospital and Florida Hospital for Children, Johns Hopkins University, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Orlando, FL, USA, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Jeffery P. Jacobs

  3. School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

    Steven E. Lipshultz

  4. University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Peter C. Laussen

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Amalberti, R. (2015). Measuring and Assessing Adverse Medical Events. In: Barach, P., Jacobs, J., Lipshultz, S., Laussen, P. (eds) Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6566-8_27

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