Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Study #2: The Relation of Hospital Occupancy to Adverse Events

Study Questions: How does the daily rate of adverse events vary with workload as measured by hospital occupancy?

Weissman JS, Rothschild JM, Bendavid E, Sprivulis P, Cook EF, Evans RS, Kaganova Y, Bender M, David-Kasdan J, Haug P, Lloyd J, Selbovitz LG, Murff HJ, Bates DW. Hospital Workload and Adverse Events. Medical Care 2007; 45(5): 448-455.

NIH/AHRQ Grant