Adverse Events & Incident Analysis
Adverse Events & Incident Analysis, Patient Safety
April 13, 2026
Global Burden of Adverse Effects of Medical Treatment: What 30 Years of Data Tell Us
What 30 years of GBD data across 204 countries show about the burden of adverse effects of medical treatment, progress and persistent inequality.
Reading time: 4 minutes
Adverse Events & Incident Analysis, Patient Safety, Quality & Safety Measurement, Research Methods
August 22, 2025
Adverse Drug Event Trigger Tool: A Practical Methodology
The adverse drug event trigger tool: a practical method for measuring medication-related harm in hospitals.
Reading time: 8 minutes
Adverse Events & Incident Analysis, Patient Safety
August 4, 2025
Patient-Reported Safety Concerns: Tool Development and Testing
Developing and testing a tool for patients to report safety concerns, and what patient reports add to safety.
Reading time: 3 minutesAdverse Events & Incident Analysis, Patient Safety
June 30, 2025
The Cost of Unsafe Medical Care
The cost of unsafe medical care: the global health and economic burden of patient harm and why prevention pays.
Reading time: 12 minutesAdverse Events & Incident Analysis, Patient Safety, Quality & Safety Measurement, Research Methods
June 27, 2025
Global Trigger Tool vs. Voluntary Reporting in Adverse Event Detection
How the Global Trigger Tool compares with voluntary reporting in detecting adverse events in hospitals.
Reading time: 3 minutesAdverse Events & Incident Analysis, Patient Safety
June 21, 2025
Why We Still Kill Patients
Millenson’s ‘Why We Still Kill Patients’: why preventable deaths persist and what accountability requires.
Reading time: 2 minutesAdverse Events & Incident Analysis, Patient Safety
June 19, 2025
The London Protocol: Advancing Clinical Incident Analysis
The London Protocol for clinical incident analysis: how systems analysis of incidents works and why it matters.
Reading time: 3 minutesAdverse Events & Incident Analysis, Patient Safety
June 16, 2025
Harvard Medical Practice Study I
The Harvard Medical Practice Study I: incidence of adverse events and negligence in hospitalised patients.
Reading time: 2 minutesAdverse Events & Incident Analysis, Patient Safety
June 16, 2025
Harvard Medical Practice Study II
What the Harvard Medical Practice Study II found about adverse events and negligence in hospitals, and why it shaped the patient safety movement.
Reading time: 3 minutes
Adverse Events & Incident Analysis, Patient Safety
June 15, 2025
Ernest Amory Codman: Pioneer of Adverse Event Classification
Ernest Amory Codman’s 1918 A Study in Hospital Efficiency and his E-s, E-j, E-c, E-d, P-d, P-r and C classification of imperfect surgical results.
Reading time: 4 minutes
