Frequency, type, and degree of potential harm of adverse safety events among pediatric emergency medical services encounters - Cicero MX, Baird J, Brown L, Auerbach M, Adelgais K.

BACKGROUND: Only 5-10% of emergency medical services (EMS) patients are children, and most pediatric encounters are low-acuity. EMS chart review has been used to identify adverse safety events (ASEs) in high-acuity and high-risk pediatric encounters. The o...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news