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Table 7 Incidence of severe and catastrophic AEs categoridsed according to area, gender and preventability

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

Area of AE

Severe and catastrophic AEs n (%)

Men/women n

Preventable AE n (%)

Prolonged disease progression

44 (20.6)

18/26

38 (86.4)

Deliberate self-harm

18 (10.2)

8/10

10 (55.6)

Mental injury

12 (8.6)

3/9

11 (91.7)

Medication-related injury

11 (13.1)

4/7

5 (45.5)

Physical injury

2 (2.9)

0/2

0 (0)

Other

6 (18.2)

2/4

3 (50.0)

Illegal/unethical treatment

0 (0)

0/0

0 (0)

Total

93 (12.9)

35/58

67 (72.0)

  1. AE Adverse event