35 Hospital interventions may reduce the risk of future harm, including the incidence of other types of harm not seen in hospital, for example, further adversity-related injury not leading to admission.
Compared with estimates derived from registers of hospital attendance for self-harm, CPRD underestimates the incidence of self-harm by approximately 54.5%.
Patient harm reported through the incidence reporting system included unexpected patient death; fall injury; pain and swelling from subcutaneous peripheral venous catheter; complications to procedure; anaphylactic drug reactions; and prolonged hospitalisation due to errors in medication and fluid administration.
Even the most cautious estimates of harm rise with the incidence of infection.
Patient harm identified in the incidence reports was classified from E through I for comparison to the findings from the PTT screening.
We tested their stored sera for HCV, retrospectively, and therefore had the unique opportunity to document the effect of harm reduction on the incidence of both HIV and HCV over a long time period [ 7– 9].
5 In view of the overlap in the epidemiology of fatal and non-fatal self harm, a greater understanding of the incidence and characteristics of non-fatal self harm after discharge from psychiatric inpatient care may provide information relevant to the prevention of suicides after discharge.
Consumption of pornography may, on its own, be neither necessary nor sufficient for violent sexual crime (or for sexist attitudes and behaviour more generally); yet it might still be a cause of violent sexual crime and these other harms, if it increases the incidence of them.
These factors increase the risk of harming the foetus, making the incidence of neural tube defects rise by a factor of 1.5 to 3.0 times in children of obese mothers and the risk of stillbirth by a factor of 2.5 to 3.4.
Although a number of explicit patient safety risks have been identified, the incidence of harm in primary care has not yet been quantified reliably [ 4].
