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Results - Event Rates
- Adverse drug events
- Events: 815
- Rate: 9.8 per 100 resident-months
- Preventable adverse drug events
- Events: 338
- Rate: 4.1 per 100 resident-months
Notes:
In other words, if you have 100 residents, 2 events per month. Approximately half of the events we found were judged preventable—high rate.
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