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Flowchart of adverse event rates, AE percentages are weighted for hospital type.

Flowchart of adverse event rates, AE percentages are weighted for hospital type.

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Objectives Patient safety is a core component of quality of hospital care and measurable through adverse event (AE) rates. A high-risk group are femoral neck fracture patients. The Dutch clinical guideline states that the treatment of choice is cemented total hip arthroplasty (THA) or hemiarthroplasty (HA). We aimed to identify the prevalence of AE...

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... 38-mostly older (n = 35)-patients undergoing THA/HA comprised the subsample that we focused on. Figure 1 shows the AE flowchart. We found 474 AEs in 435 patients in the total sample, incidence = 14.6% (95% confidence interval [CI], 13.3-16.0). ...
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... human cause was found in 17.8%, mostly relating to a lack of geriatric knowledge. Appendix Figure 1, http://links. lww.com/JPS/A598, shows the distribution of causes. ...