Erschienen in:
Open Access
01.02.2011 | Poster presentation
Patient safety in ICUs: adverse events characterization and potential risk factors
verfasst von:
L Zambon, R Daud-Gallotti, K Padilha, T Vasconcelos, N Inoue, F Rodrigues, L Tanigushi, I Velasco
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Sonderheft 1/2011
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Excerpt
ICUs are complex settings, with critically ill patients submitted to invasive care, involving a multidisciplinary team, requiring urgent high-risk decision-making, taking place in an expensive structure with new technologies of increasing complexity. All these conditions facilitate the development of adverse events (AEs). We aimed to determine the occurrence of AEs in four tertiary academic ICUs in Brazil, disclosing their potential risk factors. …