"The bottom line is, were there any adverse patient outcomes?
Under the current tort system, the providing physician (irrespective of his or her employment status with a health-care system) may be held personally liable for an adverse patient outcome and, as a result, subject to malpractice litigation.
Adverse patient events are frequently associated with medication administration errors.
Polypharmacy in hemodialysis patients can result in adverse patient outcomes.
Proteinuria is common and is associated with adverse patient outcomes.
Further research is needed to determine whether these delays lead to adverse patient outcomes.
Conclusions: ARDS is associated with adverse patient outcomes and increased healthcare resource utilisation.
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common after cardiac surgery and is associated with adverse patient outcomes.
The handover process offers many opportunities for incidents and adverse patient outcomes.
This can contribute to ED overcrowding with resulting adverse patient outcomes, including increased mortality, and increased costs [7].
Perioperative hypothermia is a frequently observed phenomenon of general anesthesia and is associated with adverse patient outcome.
