Medical Error Definition

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 Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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

Medical Error The failure to complete the intended plan of action or implementing the wrong plan to achieve an aim. An unintended act or one that fails to …

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 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 …

Adverse Events, Near Misses, and Errors | PSNet

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

Error: a broader term referring to any act of commission (doing something wrong) or omission (failing to do the right thing) that exposes patients to a potentially …

Defining and classifying medical error: …

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

A member of the pharmacy management team underscored that pharmacists routinely double checked the work of those who wrote and filled orders and caught their mistakes, a …

Medical Errors and Patient Safety - Boston University

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

Error in the dose or method of using a drug Avoidable delay in treatment or in responding to an abnormal test Inappropriate (not indicated) care Preventive Failure to provide …

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 …

Medication errors: definitions and classification - PMC

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723196/

Psychologists consider an error to be a disorder of an intentional act, and they distinguish between errors in planning an act and errors in its execution. If a prior intention to reach …