The study met with criticism because of its single center application, absence of a standardized approach to ventilator weaning, and, most markedly, concerns for potentially unrecognized patient harm from the daily interruption [ 30].
We identified four fatal ADEs (all recognized by the medical teams) and 38 ADEs which caused life-threatening patient harm [5 (15.2 %) unrecognized by the medical teams].
It enables identification of those patients most in need of urgent evaluation and to exclude patients from possible harm due to unrecognized sleep apnoea.
Depression if unrecognized or untreated can lead to self-harm and in some cases, suicide [ 56].
To compare the distributions of ADE severity, causality, type of harm manifestation, and type of events between unrecognized and recognized ADEs, we used the chi-square test or Fisher's exact test.
Thus, when she really needed help to keep residents safe, the strength of a unified nursing team was not available and the consequences were twofold: a greater risk for resident harm and the nursing aide's feeling of being unrecognized by her charge nurse.
The extent to which transfusion may cause further, low-grade risks is hard to assess, since subtle harms — as well as subtle gains — can easily go unrecognized in patients who are already critically ill.
The harm has come from drug products containing toxic impurities, from drugs with unrecognized severe adverse reactions, from adulterated drug products, and from fake or counterfeit drugs.
The expert team assessed an ADE as unrecognized if, based on the patient charts reviewed, no indication was found that a medical team involved recognized patient harm as being medication related and/or no certain documented actions were targeted at that specific ADE.
