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The Canadian Adverse Events Study: the incidence of adverse events among hospital patients in Canada

G. Ross Baker, Peter G. Norton, Virginia Flintoft, Régis Blais, Adalsteinn Brown, Jafna Cox, Ed Etchells, William A. Ghali, Philip Hébert, Sumit R. Majumdar, Maeve O'Beirne, Luz Palacios-Derflingher, Robert J. Reid, Sam Sheps and Robyn Tamblyn
CMAJ May 25, 2004 170 (11) 1678-1686; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1040498
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vol. 170 no. 11 1678-1686
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1040498
PubMed 
15159366
History 
  • Published online May 24, 2004.
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© 2004 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors

Author Information

  1. G. Ross Baker,
  2. Peter G. Norton,
  3. Virginia Flintoft,
  4. Régis Blais,
  5. Adalsteinn Brown,
  6. Jafna Cox,
  7. Ed Etchells,
  8. William A. Ghali,
  9. Philip Hébert,
  10. Sumit R. Majumdar,
  11. Maeve O'Beirne,
  12. Luz Palacios-Derflingher,
  13. Robert J. Reid,
  14. Sam Sheps,
  15. Robyn Tamblyn
  1. From the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Baker, Flintoft, Brown) and of Medicine (Etchells, Hébert), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; the Department of Family Medicine (Norton, O'Beirne, Palacios-Derflingher), Medicine and Community Health Sciences (Ghali), and the Centre for Health and Policy Studies (Ghali), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; the Department of Health Administration, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Que. (Blais); the Division of Cardiology, Departments of Medicine and of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (Cox); the Division of General Internal Medicine and Patient Safety Service (Etchells), and the Department of Family Medicine (Hébert), Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ont.; the Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta. (Majumdar); the Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Wash. (Reid); the Department of Health Care Epidemiology and the Western Regional Training Centre for Health Services Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Sheps); and the Departments of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montréal, Que. (Tamblyn)
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