• Adverse events: an expensive and avoidable hospital problem 

      San José Saras, Diego; Valencia-Martín, José Lorenzo; Vicente-Guijarro, Jorge; Moreno-Nuñez, Paloma; Pardo, Alberto; Aranaz Andrés, Jesús María (Annals of Medicine, 2022)
      Introduction: Adverse healthcare-related events (AE) entail reduced patient safety. Estimating their frequency, characteristics, avoidability and impact is a means to identify targets for improvement in the quality of care. ...
    • Inappropriate hospital admission as a risk factor for the subsequent development of adverse events: a cross-sectional study 

      San José Saras, Diego; Vicente-Guijarro, Jorge; Sousa, Paulo; Moreno-Nuñez, Paloma; Aranaz Andrés, Jesús María (BMC Medicine, 2023)
      Background: All health overuse implies an unnecessary risk of patients suffering adverse events (AEs). However, this hypothesis has not been corroborated by direct estimates for inappropriate hospital admission (IHA). The ...