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FAJRELDINES, Ana; PELLIZZARI, Marcelo; VALERIO, Mariana  e  RODRIGUEZ, Viviana. Healthcare-associated harm in adult patients hospitalized in two tertiary care centers in Argentina. Medicina (B. Aires) [online]. 2022, vol.82, n.3, pp.423-427. ISSN 0025-7680.

The damage associated with health care is relevant and highly preventable. The Global Trigger Tool is a leading methodology in use for its quantification. Our study aimed to quantify, through this tool, the damage associated with care during hospitalization, characterize the types of damage involved, identify the associated factors and describe the use of the information collected. We conducted a retrospective longitudinal study. A total of 266 adverse events were detected between the two hospitals: 138 events in Hospital A, and 128 in Hospital B, the patient days analyzed in each hospital were 2089 and 2046 respectively. This is 61.3 events every 1000 patient days, and 62.5 events every 1000 patient days in A and B respectively, p = 0.3. In general terms, constructing a single population of the two hospitals, 32 adverse events were found every 100 admis sions, and 64.3 events every 1000 days / patients. The events were associated in decreasing order of frequency with: medication (45.5%), infections (32.4%), procedures without infection (15.2%), pulmonary thromboembolism (4.8%), pressure ulcers (1.4%), devices (0.7%). The associated variables were polypharmacy and polymorbid ity. Factors associated with the occurrence of adverse events were female gender (OR: 2.1), administration of high-risk medications (OR 2.3), age ≥ 80 years (OR 2.6), and registration of ≥ 3 transfers between wards during hospitalization (OR 2.9). The observed damage rates are comparable to the rates evaluated by the same method in international studies.

Palavras-chave : Global Trigger Tool; Patient safety; Hospitalization.

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