Adverse events in British hospitals: preliminary retrospective record review

By C. Vincent, Graham K. Neale, M. Woloshynowych. British medical journal, 2001

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IT support for healthcare processes - premises, challenges, perspectives (2007, background): “Adverse events are defined as unintended injuries caused by medical management rather than the disease process [83].”
A comparison of Antecedents to Cardiac Arrests, Deaths and EMergency Intensive care Admissions in Australia and New Zealand, and the United Kingdom—the ACADEMIA study (2004, background): “There is increasing interest in potentially preventable causes of in-hospital morbidity and mortality [1–4].”
Rates of medication errors among depressed and burnt out residents: prospective cohort study (2008, background): “Adverse events are also common in the United Kingdom, occurring in more than 10% of hospital admissions; as many as half of these adverse events might have been preventable.”