ArticleJournal of hospital medicine2020
Adverse Events Experienced by Patients Hospitalized without Definite Medical Acuity: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
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- Predictive values of trigger tools for identifying adverse events in hospitalized patients using a medical record review: a systematic review.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2025Pooled it
- Variation in detected adverse events using trigger tools: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- A Transdisciplinary Allied Health "Flying Squad" to Overcome Non-Medical Barriers to Discharge From Hospital: A Feasibility Study.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2026Observational
- Disposition at Equipoise: A Qualitative Study of Emergency Physicians' Decision-Making About Hospitalizing People With Dementia.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Article
- Study protocol for the design, implementation, and evaluation of the STRATIFY clinical decision support tool for emergency department disposition of patients with heart failure.Implementation science communications · 2025Article
- Active surveillance of adverse drug events in hospitalized patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension based on the global trigger tool.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Multi-Disciplinary Discharge Coordination Team to Overcome Discharge Barriers and Address the Risk of Delayed Discharges.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2022Article
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- Getting Unstuck: Challenges and Opportunities in Caring for Patients Experiencing Prolonged Hospitalization While Stable for Discharge.The American journal of medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
Physicians often consider various nonmedical factors in hospital admission decision-making and may admit socially tenuous patients despite low-acuity medical needs. Evidence showing whether these patients are subject to the same risks of hospitalization as those considered definitely medically appropriate is limited. Our study sought to inform this risk/benefit discussion by quantifying the number of adverse events (AEs) experienced by both patient populations by using the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Global Trigger Tool methodology. We found no difference in the percentage of admissions with AEs between the two groups (27.3% vs 29.3%; risk ratio 0.93, 95% CI 0.65-1.34, P = .70) nor in AEs per 1,000-patient days (76.8 vs 70.4; incidence rate ratio = 1.09, 95% CI 0.77-1.55, P = .61). Thus, the number of AEs experienced during hospitalization does not appear to be related to the appropriateness of admission based on the level of medical acuity.
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