A medical error is a preventable adverse effect of care ("iatrogenesis"), whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. This might include an...

An error (from the Latin errāre, meaning 'to wander') is an inaccurate or incorrect action, thought, or judgement. In statistics, "error" refers to the...

Medical Errors and Medical Narcissism is a 2005 book by John Banja. Banja defines "medical narcissism" as the need of health professionals to preserve...

Type I error, or a false positive, is the erroneous rejection of a true null hypothesis in statistical hypothesis testing. A type II error, or a false...

through the systematic prevention, reduction, reporting, and analysis of medical errors and preventable harm that contribute to severe outcomes for the patient...

The negligence might arise from errors in diagnosis, treatment, aftercare or health management. An act of medical malpractice usually has three characteristics...

harmful complication, or other ill effect by any medical activity, including diagnosis, intervention, error, or negligence. First used in this sense in 1924...

interpretation due to the differences between medical testing and statistical hypothesis testing. A false positive error, or false positive, is a result that indicates...

Guideline (medical) Iatrogenesis Invasive (medical) List of surgical instruments Medical error Medical prescription Medical test Minimally invasive Nocebo Non-invasive...

Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) Medical classification Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy Medical error Nosology Nursing diagnosis Pathogenesis...

applications in computer science and telecommunications, error detection and correction (EDAC) or error control are techniques that enable reliable delivery...

been adopted by international standards organizations for medical devices (see #Use errors in health care below for references), suggests that accidents...

from an unsuitable or incorrect dosage or procedure, this is called a medical error and not an adverse effect. Adverse effects are sometimes referred to...

practice in the medical community and causes injury or death to the patient, with most cases involving medical error. Claims of medical malpractice, when...

claim that the third leading cause of death in the United States is "medical error and medication". According to New York magazine, she has "raised long-settled...

emergency medicine particularly susceptible to medical error and near misses. One study identified an error rate of 18 per 100 registered patients in one...

been active in trying to improve the medical system to reduce medical error. In 1994 he had an article, "Error in Medicine," published in JAMA, which...

medical working hours, shift work and sleep deprivation contribute to medical errors. Within Western culture and over recent centuries, medicine has become...

prosecute health care professionals for medical errors that result in harm to patients. Nurses and other medical practitioners closely monitored the trial...

outcomes associated with medical error, to modify behavior and judgment based on previous experiences, and to prevent repetition of errors leading to complications...

hers. The medical error occurred due to a misunderstanding about blood type compatibility between the surgeon at the Duke University Medical Center and...

Team Error refers to errors that occur in settings where multiple people are working together. Dependency increases the likelihood of human error due to...

with Michael Daniel, authored a piece in the British Medical Journal that claimed that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States...

medicine, prevention of medical error (and other "iatrogenesis"), and avoidance of unnecessary health care are a priority in modern medical systems. These topics...

after the patient has gone home. Misdiagnosis is the leading cause of medical error in outpatient facilities. When the U.S. Institute of Medicine's groundbreaking...

The standard error (SE) of a statistic (usually an estimator of a parameter, like the average or mean) is the standard deviation of its sampling distribution...

injury in medicine is by misdiagnosis and medical error. These result in iatrogenic injury and from medical error flows a cascade of effects and results...

adoption.[weasel words] Handwritten paper medical records may be poorly legible, which can contribute to medical errors. Pre-printed forms, standardization...

being taken or a medical device used in the treatment of the patient. In Australia, 'Adverse EVENT' refers generically to medical errors of all kinds, surgical...

Gender-biased diagnosing is the idea that medical and psychological diagnosis are influenced by the patient's gender. Several studies have found evidence...