Mapping the nature, type, and association network of safety incidents among individuals with cognitive impairment in China: a large-scale multicenter cross-sectional study
Ying Zhou, Guoping Peng, Zhengluan Liao, Huayan Liu, Jun Liu, Wang Liao, Qiumin Qu, Jingping Shi, Jieli Geng, Nan Zhi, Wenwei Cao, Yaying Song, Yang Zhang, Xiaohong Wang, Lin Wang, Yuan Zhu, Yan Zhou, Huali Wang, Yongan Sun, Rujing Ren, Hengge Xie, Gang Wang, representing ADC · 2026
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Ying Zhou and colleagues published a 2026 multicenter study mapping safety incidents among people with cognitive impairment in China. Falls, medication mistakes, and wandering all endanger this group, but incidents are usually counted one type at a time. The team instead charted which incidents occur together, using network analysis across many centers, and compared rates by care setting, region, and disease stage.
More than half of the individuals studied had experienced at least one safety incident. Medication errors and verbal aggression were the most common types. Medication errors and getting lost sat at the center of the network, bridging many other incident types. The authors suggest that preventing those two hub problems could reduce a wider web of harm around cognitively impaired patients.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ying Zhou, Guoping Peng, Zhengluan Liao, Huayan Liu, Jun Liu, Wang Liao, Qiumin Qu, Jingping Shi, Jieli Geng, Nan Zhi, Wenwei Cao, Yaying Song, Yang Zhang, Xiaohong Wang, Lin Wang, Yuan Zhu, Yan Zhou, Huali Wang, Yongan Sun, Rujing Ren, Hengge Xie, Gang Wang, representing ADC |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |