October 6, 2022
Patients with developmental disabilities more likely to experience preventable physical injuries while in hospital according to Laia Maynou research
Our researcher Dr Laia Maynou, and Dr Rocco Friebel, Director of the Global Surgery Policy Unit at LSE, are the authors of the paper “Assessing the dangers of a hospital stay for patients with developmental disability in England, 2017-2019”. Their research, published in the October 2022 issue of the journal Health Affairs, reveals that people with developmental disabilities are nearly three times more likely than other patients to experience preventable…