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An electronic trigger based on care escalation to identify preventable adverse events in hospitalised patients

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  • Viraj Bhise Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dean F Sittig School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Viralkumar Vaghani Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Li Wei Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jessica Baldwin Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hardeep Singh Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Hardeep Singh, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 2002 Holcombe Blvd, 152, Houston, Texas 77030, USA; hardeeps{at}bcm.edu
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Bhise V, Sittig DF, Vaghani V, et al
An electronic trigger based on care escalation to identify preventable adverse events in hospitalised patients
BMJ Quality & Safety 2018;27:241-246.

Publication history

  • Received May 31, 2017
  • Revised August 10, 2017
  • Accepted August 17, 2017
  • First published September 21, 2017.
Online issue publication 
February 19, 2018

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