BMJ quality & safety
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BMJ Qual Saf
2020
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BMJ quality & safety · Apr 2020
Multicenter Study Observational StudyStudy of a multisite prospective adverse event surveillance system.
We have designed a prospective adverse event (AE) surveillance method. We performed this study to evaluate this method's performance in several hospitals simultaneously. ⋯ This study demonstrated that it is possible to implement prospective surveillance in different settings. Such surveillance appears to be better suited to evaluating hospital safety concerns within rather than between hospitals as we could not definitively rule out whether the observed variation in AE risk was due to population or surveillance factors.