Table 2.
Estimated cost of adverse events (1999 values)
Specialty
No of patients with adverse events
Mean (SD) extra bed days for all adverse events
Daily cost of bed (£)
Total cost of additional bed days for study sample (£1000s)
General medicine
25
4.87 (5.67)
171
20.8
General surgery
47
6.07 (12.52)
282
80.4
Obstetrics
7
3.57 (2.88)
305
7.6
Orthopaedics
40
14.58 (17.87)
311
181.4
Total
119
8.54 (13.55)
290.2
