Table 2.

Prevalence and rates per 100 patient discharges of patient safety events by hospital type

	Community-based general acute care hospitals (n=4371)	VHA acute care hospitals (n=8005)	(ref=VHA)	(ref=VHA)
	Rate, 95% CIs	Rate, 95% CIs	Unadjusted Odds Ratio	Adjusted Odds Ratio┼
Any Event	15.26[11.88-18.65]	8.00[6.95- 9.05]	2.07 [1.57-2.73]	2.10 [1.71-2.59]
Adverse Events (AE) All	13.48 [10.49-16.47]	7.11 [6.14-8.08]	2.03 [1.55-2.67]	2.11[1.72-2.59]
Adverse drug event (ADE)	8.60 [6.17-11.03]	3.74 [3.05-4.43]	2.42 [1.73-3.40]	2.20 [1.67-2.90]
Patient self-harm or injury	0.60 [0.22-0.99]	0.44 [0.29-0.59]	1.39 [0.71-2.71]	1.57 [0.73-3.39]
Patient assault	1.05 [0.75-1.35]	0.94 [0.61-1.26]	1.12 [0.72-1.73]	1.60 [0.85-3.04]
Patient sexual contact	0.80 [0.61-0.99]	0.11 [0.04-0.19]	7.19 [3.54-14.61]	8.36 [3.53-19.8]
Patient fall	3.55 [2.73-4.37]	2.44 [1.95-2.92]	1.47 [1.10-1.98]	1.75 [1.23-2.49]
Other non-drug AEs	1.40 [0.71-2.09]	0.25 [0.11-0.38]	5.67 [2.82-11.41]	5.38 [2.42-11.99]
Medical Errors All	3.01 [2.16-3.86]	1.49 [1.09-1.89]	2.06 [1.41-3.00]	2.08 [1.43-3.02]
Elopement	0.18 [0.02-0.34]	0.21 [0.05-0.38]	0.87 [0.29-2.64]	0.75 [0.21-2.70]
Contraband	1.47 [1.08-1.87]	0.65 [0.41-0.89]	2.29 [1.48-3.54]	2.31 [1.35-3.96]
Non-drug medical errors	1.63 [1.02-2.24]	0.80 [0.55-1.05]	2.06 [1.29-3.27]	2.19 [1.41-3.40]

^┼Controlling for all characteristics in Table 1.