Adverse events Harvard Medical Practice Study

Leape LL, Brennan TA, Laird N, Lawthers AG, Localio AR, Barnes BA et al. The nature of adverse events in hospitalized patients. Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study II. N Engl J Med 1991 324(6) 377-84. 

Brennan T, Leape L, Laird N, Hebert L, LocaUo A, Lawthers A, et al. Incidence of adverse events and negligence in hospitalized patients results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study. Qual Saf Health Care. 2004 13 145-52. 

Brennan, T. A., Leape, L. L., Laird, N. M., et al., Incidence of Adverse Events and Negligence in Hospitalized Patients Results from the Harvard Medical Practice Study I, New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 324, No. 6,1991, pp. 370-376. 

Harvard Medical Practice Study (HMPS) (2) A 1991 study of medical records from fifty-one hospitals in New York State. The study found that almost 4 percent of all patients whose records were studied had suffered adverse events as a result of their medical care (Brennan and others, 1991). 

Brennan TA, Leape LL. Adverse events, neghgence in hospitalized patients results from the Harvard Medical Practice Study. Perspect Healthcare Risk Manage 1991 11 (2) 2—8. Spring. 

Richard M.J. Bohmer is a physician and an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University. His research focuses on the management of clinical processes and the way in which health-care teams learn to improve outcomes, prevent error, and reduce adverse events. He has studied catastrophic failures in health care, the adoption of new technologies into medical practice, and more recently the way in which health-care delivery organizations deal with custom and standard operations concurrently. He holds a medical degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. 

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