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Almost 25% of inpatient admissions in 2018 experienced at least one adverse event while 7% experienced a preventable adverse event, according to new data published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The analysis, which looked at about 2,800 admissions across 11 hospitals, found 978 adverse events, many of them serious, and a small percentage – 1% – that were both serious

An update to the 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study states that 7% of inpatient adverse events are preventable.

Some of the adverse events were said to have been preventable.

About 7% of patient admissions to U.S. hospitals result in preventable adverse events, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.