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Table 4 AEs in psychiatric care

From: Adverse events in psychiatry: a national cohort study in Sweden with a unique psychiatric trigger tool

Area of AE

Total number of AEs n (%)

Preventable AEs n (%)

AEs in hospital care n (%)

AEs in outpatient care n (%)

Prolonged disease progression

214 (30)

148 (69)

102 (23)

112 (41)

Deliberate self-harma

177 (25)

42 (24)

106 (24)

71 (26)

Mental injury

139 (19)

68 (49)

106 (24)

33 (12)

Medication-related injury

84 (12)

27 (32)

52 (12)

32 (12)

Physical injury

68 (9)

21 (31)

60 (13)

8 (3)

Other

33 (4)

24 (73)

18 (4)

15 (6)

Illegal/unethical treatment

5 (1)

3 (60)

5 (1)

0 (0)

Total

720 (100)

333 (46)

449 (100)

271 (100)

  1. aAmong the AEs in the area of deliberate self-harm, the AE type suicide attempt was significantly more common in outpatient care, and the incidence of deliberate self-harm did not differ between patients in hospital care and those in outpatient care
  2. AE Adverse event