Abstract

Inusah Deunaa Iddrisu*, Akwasi Anyanful and Samuel Victor Nuvor

ABSTRACT

Background: Being discharged from the hospital is sometimes associated with complications which may be dangerous to the patient. Adverse events are unintended injuries or complications which may result in death, disability and prolonged hospital stay after discharge or related to the hospital visit. 6th to 19th of January 2018 and the incidence, types and severity of adverse events after hospitalization in a secondary hospital in Northern Ghana. Method: A prospective cohort study was used to establish the relationship between adverse events and hospital services. This was carried out with patients admitted and discharged from Wa Hospital. A total of 206 patients were recruited from the medical, surgical and emergency wards of the hospital. Finding: the result shows that there was a significant influence of the type of hospital ward a patient was admitted to on types of adverse events reported (r=-0.251, p=0.005) 6th to 19th of January 2018. However there were no other significant influences of service delivery factors on the severity of adverse events reported. There were also no significant influences of specific service delivery factors on the general incidence of reported adverse events. Conclusion: Understanding of how health services delivered leads to adverse events will help in improvement in patient outcomes and reduce the occurrence of adverse events after patients had been discharged from the hospital.