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Medical errors

-- See Also the narrower term Chiropractic errors

-- See Also the narrower term Diagnostic errors

-- See Also the narrower term Gynecologic errors

-- See Also Iatrogenic Disease

Any adverse condition in a patient occurring as the result of treatment by a physician, surgeon, or other health professional, especially infections acquired by a patient during the course of treatment

-- See Also the narrower term Iatrogenic diseases

-- See Also Malpractice

Failure of a professional person, a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

-- See Also the narrower term Medical misconceptions

-- See Also the narrower term Medical personnel Malpractice

-- See Also the narrower term Medication errors

-- See Also the narrower term Nursing errors

-- See Also the narrower term Obstetrical errors

-- See Also Patient Harm

A measure of PATIENT SAFETY considering errors or mistakes which result in harm to the patient. They include errors in the administration of drugs and other medications (MEDICATION ERRORS), errors in the performance of procedures or the use of other types of therapy, in the use of equipment, and in the interpretation of laboratory findings and preventable accidents involving patients

-- See Also the narrower term Pediatric errors

-- See Also the narrower term Psychiatric errors

-- See Also the narrower term Surgical errors

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