Critically ill children brought to hospital EDs unprepared for pediatric emergencies are three times more likely to die than at hospitals well-equipped to care for them.
Editor’s note: In this interview,Michael R. Cohen, RPH, MS, ScD (hon.), DPS (hon.), FASHP, founder and president of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), discusses the current state of medication safety. The interview was...
While suicide overall often has been in the top sentinel events, this breakdown includes two categories that split suicide events into those involving an inpatient and events involving a patient within 72 hours of discharge.