Adverse Event Analysis
In healthcare practice, adverse events are inevitable, but severe consequences occur following the adverse events. Death resulting from preventable adverse events are among the top list of deaths in the United States. Approximately over 250,000 patients received healthcare services in the United States, experience adverse events. More than 100,000 of the patient die yearly following the adverse event(Skelly et al., 2021). The adverse events seriously affect patient safety and quality of care in hospitals. Adverse drug events, hospital-acquired infections, and surgical complications are some categories of preventable adverse events (Rodziewicz & Hipskind, 2021). The adverse drug events entail, administration of incorrect medications and dosages. Nosocomial infections entail a surgery or device-related infections. Procedural errors such as leaving a surgical tool inside an incision or removing healthy tissue are among the surgical problems recorded. All the events mentioned above lead to a significant impact on the individual patients causing death. The focus of this adverse event analysis is blood transfusion error
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