It excluded those deemed 'definitely not preventable'slightght evidence of preventability' and 'possibly preventable but not very likely'.
Excepted for one study gathering a large proportion of febrile neutropenia, which is not preventable [ 20], the preventability rate in the seven other studies was high (lowest estimate 47.7% [ 16]).
And for many people, back pain is just part of life and not preventable -- just as you can't prevent a headache or a common cold.
We also assessed ADR preventability (defined as definitely or probably preventable, or not preventable), using the criteria devised by Schumock and Thornton.
They believe that disorders caused by accidents cannot be prevented and there are other disorder triggering factors that are not preventable.
Each of the remaining 459 readmissions, which had an existing assessment of preventability from manual review was independently classified as preventable or not preventable by automated classification using PPR.
We assessed potential preventability of errors adapting a validated Likert scale to differentiate between definitely not preventable, probably not preventable, probably preventable, and definitely preventable errors [ 14] (Table 2).
The melancholy conclusion from these events is that they are not predictable — and thus not preventable.
At that time, post-transfusion hepatitis was common and not preventable.
Yet it is hard to accept the committee's all too convenient conclusion that Lee Rigby's death was not preventable.
One definitional problem is that a certain number of complications from drugs, surgery and other therapies are unpredictable and not preventable.
