Definition Of A Medical Error

Medical Error - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430763/

Medical Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and …

https://www.ahrq.gov/topics/medical-errors.html

Medical errors can occur anywhere in the health care system--in hospitals, clinics, surgery centers, doctors' offices, nursing homes, pharmacies, and patients' homes …

Medical Error - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28613514/

A medical error is a preventable adverse effect of medical care, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. Among the problems that commonly occur …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29763131/

Medical errors are a serious public health problem and a leading cause of death in the United States. It is challenging to uncover a consistent cause of errors and, …

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/medical-errors-honesty-is-the-best-policy-2016100310405

How common are medical errors? Medical errors are, frankly, rampant. A recent study used data …

Patient Safety - World Health Organization

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/patient-safety

Medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in health care systems: globally, the cost associated with medication errors has …

Defining and classifying medical error: …

https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/13/1/13

Definitions that promote learning in a hospital pharmacy Errors corrected within the pharmacy and categorized as “non-events” did not result in a complete loss of …

Adverse Events, Near Misses, and Errors | PSNet

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/adverse-events-near-misses-and-errors

Errors are defined as "an act of commission (doing something wrong) or omission (failing to do the right thing) leading to an undesirable outcome or significant …

Medication Errors - World Health Organization

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/252274/9789241511643-eng.pdf;sequence=1

This definition is broad and suggests that errors are preventable at different levels. Medication error has also been defined as a reduction in the probability of treatment …

Medical Errors and Patient Safety - Boston University

https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/HPM/AmericanHealthCare_Quality/AmericanHealthCare_Quality4.html

Error in the performance of an operation, procedure, or test Error in administering the treatment Error in the dose or method of using a drug Avoidable delay in treatment or in …