Learning from patient safety incidents involving acutely sick adults in hospital assessment units in England and Wales: a mixed methods analysis for quality improvement

Summary

This study, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, analyses safety incidents on acute medical wards in the NHS over a period of 10 years. A total of 377 reports of severe harm or death were confirmed, with the most common types of incident the result of diagnostic errors, medication-related errors and failures monitoring patients.