Medical error
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A medical error may be defined as a preventable adverse effect of care, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. This might include an inaccurate or incomplete diagnosis or treatment of a disease, injury, syndrome, behavior, infection, or other ailment.
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See also
- Adverse effect
- Adverse event
- Serious adverse event
- Adverse drug reaction
- Biosafety
- Complication (medicine)
- Fatal Care: Survive in the U.S. Health System (book)
- Iatrogenesis
- Medical malpractice
- Medical resident work hours
- Negligence
- Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005
- Patient safety and nursing
- Patient safety organization
- Quality Use of Medicines
- Swiss Cheese model of accident causation in human systems
- To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System
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