Research

Using Medical Emergency Teams to detect preventable adverse events

Akshai Iyengar¹, Alan Baxter² and Alan J Forster^3,¹^*

¹ Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8M5, Canada

² Department of Anaesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8M5, Canada

³ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, 725 Parkdale Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4E9, Canada

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Critical Care 2009, 13:R126 doi:10.1186/cc7983

Published: 30 July 2009

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Appendix 1 containing our case review form.

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A text box with several examples of adverse events identified during the study.

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Appendix 2 with descriptions of all adverse events identified during the study.

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