A 7-year review of deaths on the general paediatric wards at John Hunter Children's Hospital, 1991-97

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Patients' Rooms 100%
• Pediatrics 51%
• Child 34%
• Narcotics 12%
• Analgesia 9%
• Tertiary Care Centers 9%
• Resuscitation Orders 7%
• Herpes Simplex Encephalitis 7%
• Terminally Ill 6%
• New South Wales 6%
• Psychology Unconscious 6%
• Antiemetics 6%
• Terminal Care 6%
• Cerebral Palsy 5%
• Consciousness 5%
• Cystic Fibrosis 5%
• Intravenous Infusions 5%
• Palliative Care 5%
• Anticonvulsants 5%
• Morphine 5%
• Documentation 5%
• Nervous System Diseases 5%
• General Practitioners 4%
• Adrenal Cortex Hormones 4%
• Seizures 4%
• Parents 4%
• Health Care Outcome Assessment 3%
• Quality of Life 3%
• Neoplasms 1%
• Therapeutics 0%