... thecapacity to systematically assess preventable adverse events,which are defined as poor outcomes caused by errors or systemdesign flaws. We describe how we used MET calls to systematically identify ... 4ResearchUsing Medical Emergency Teams to detect preventable adverse eventsAkshai Iyengar1, Alan Baxter2 and Alan J Forster1,31Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, ... for preventable adverse event detection to be simple to implement, easy to maintain,and informative for quality improvement efforts. One quarter ofMET calls were associated with preventable adverse...