Adverse events and in-hospital mortality: an analysis of all deaths in a Norwegian health trust during 2011.

Background: The estimated number of in-hospitals deaths due to adverse events is often different when using data from deceased patients compared with that of a population experiencing adverse events.

Methods: The study was conducted at three hospitals in the Bergen Hospital Trust, including a 950-bed university hospital. The objective was to study the reported deaths and investigate the probable number of deaths caused by adverse events.

[Medical records, DRG and intensive care patients].

Background: In order to control the quality of the medical report after a hospital stay with regards to the stay in the intensive care unit (ICU), and to cheque for correct DRG grouping, this study of 428 patients treated in our ICU in 2003 was conducted.

Material And Methods: All ICU patients from 2003 were found in our database, which includes specific ICD-10 diagnosis and specific ICU procedures. The medical record summarising the hospital stay (epicrisis) was retrieved for each patient from the hospital's electronic patient files and controlled for correct information regarding the ICU stay.

Outcome after acute respiratory failure is more dependent on dysfunction in other vital organs than on the severity of the respiratory failure.

Introduction: The incidence and outcome of acute respiratory failure (ARF) depend on dysfunction in other organs. As a result, reported mortality in patients with ARF is derived from a mixed group of patients with different degrees of multiorgan failure. The main goal of the present study was to investigate patient outcome in single organ ARF.