Dear experts,
I have read in a textbook that to monitor the hospital’s adverse event for anesthesia on a monthly basis, the formula requires the number of adverse occurrences per month(numerator) and the total number of times that anesthesia is administered each month (denominator).
My question is does the numerate means, the number of events that the anesthesia caused site affect to the patient, and does the denominator means , the use of anesthesia during the month?
Many thanks in advance.

Dear experts,
I have read in a textbook that to monitor the hospital’s adverse event for anesthesia on a monthly basis, the formula requires the number of adverse occurrences per month(numerator) and the total number of times that anesthesia is administered each month (denominator).
My question is does the numerate means, the number of events that the anesthesia caused site affect to the patient, and does the denominator means , the use of anesthesia during the month?
Many thanks in advance.

It's hard to tell from here what the author of the textbook had in mind. What do you mean by "site affect"? It seems fairly simple; the formula is seeking the percentage of adverse events as compared to the total number of times that anesthesia is adminstered.

Equally important is to evaluate the rate (number of adverse events per total number of adminstrations) as to the types of adverse events. Are the events naseua or are they death....need to look at this as a risk based analysis where different adverse events are weighted differently.

Yes. that is how I read it.

James

Yes. that is how I read it.

James

I see now that "site affect" was probably supposed to be side effect.