Definition Medical Error

Medical Error - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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

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 | Agency for Healthcare Research and …

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

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

Defining and classifying medical error: …

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

pharmacy intervention; organizational learning; medical error; patient safety; categorization; Patient safety experts debate …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499956/

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

Patient Safety - World Health Organization

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

Many medical practices and risks associated with health care are emerging as major challenges for patient safety and contribute significantly to the burden of harm due to unsafe care. …

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy

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

Medical errors: Honesty is the best policy. “It’s a definite that you’re all going to screw up, but it’s not a definite that any of you will learn from that,” declared one of our medical school instructors, …

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 …

Defining medical error - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15757035/

Medical errors represent a serious public health problem and pose a threat to patient safety. As health care institutions establish "error" as a clinical and research priority, the …

Medication errors: definitions and classification - PMC

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

The art of definition. To define something (Latin definire) is to determine its boundaries (Latin fines), and hence to state exactly what the thing is or to set forth or explain its …