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Table 1 Rates of complaints in a university hospital of the Public Network of Parisian Hospitals from 1998 to 2004

From: Evolution of patients' complaints in a French university hospital: is there a contribution of a law regarding patients' rights?

Year

Complaints for medical issues among all complaints

n/N (%)

Complaints for medical issues among hospital activity

n/N* (%)

1998

11/202 (5.4)

11/97 417 (0.011)

1999

11/254 (4.3)

11/125 756 (0.009)

2000

25/462 (5.4)

25/106 688 (0.023)

2001

31/417 (7.5)

31/115 983 (0.027)

2002

37/408 (9.2)

37/115 618 (0.032)

2003

32/272 (11.9)

32/116 619 (0.027)

2004

17/123 (14.2)

17/27 551 (0.062)

  1. * N = emergency visits and inpatients, excluding one-day hospitalizations
  2. Only the period of January through March has been studied