• 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 ...
    • Medication errors in a Spanish community pharmacy: nature, frequency and potential causes 

      Martínez Sánchez, Alina de las Mercedes (International Journal of Clinical Phamarcy, 04/2013)
      Background Medication safety has long been recognized as a key issue within the broader patient safety agenda. Errors can occur at any step along the way, from prescribing to the ultimate provision of the drug to the ...