Characterising adverse events in postdischarge high-risk patients with 6-month follow-up in a Korean tertiary hospital: a retrospective cohort study
Jee-In Hwang, Yoon-Seok Chang, Ho Jun Chin · 2025
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Jee-In Hwang, Yoon-Seok Chang, and Ho Jun Chin study what goes wrong for high-risk patients in the six months after they leave a Korean hospital. Their 2025 paper uses record reviews for 746 adults across thousands of outpatient visits. The team counted adverse events after discharge, described the patients most at risk, and tested how well simple triggers flag the events.
About fourteen percent of patients had at least one adverse event within six months. Most events were tied to medication, most were mild, and most were unpreventable. Patients with an event came back to hospital and to emergency rooms more often, though death rates did not differ. Cancer, longer stays, and arrival through emergency or day-surgery routes raised the risk. Certain triggers, such as a rash or a sudden stop of a drug, flagged events well. The authors say the move from hospital to home needs watching.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jee-In Hwang, Yoon-Seok Chang, Ho Jun Chin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |