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Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Medical Errors

Preferred term

Medical Errors  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Error, Medical
  • Errors, Medical
  • Medical Error
  • Medical Mistake
  • Medical Mistakes
  • Mistake, Medical
  • Mistakes, Medical

Note

  • coordinate with specific disease or procedure; do not confuse with MALPRACTICE

Scope note

  • Errors or mistakes committed by health professionals which result in harm to the patient. They include errors in diagnosis (DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS), errors in the administration of drugs and other medications (MEDICATION ERRORS), errors in the performance of surgical procedures, in the use of other types of therapy, in the use of equipment, and in the interpretation of laboratory findings. Medical errors are differentiated from MALPRACTICE in that the former are regarded as honest mistakes or accidents while the latter is the result of negligence, reprehensible ignorance, or criminal intent.

History note

  • 97

In other languages

  • lääketieteelliset virheet

    Finnish

  • lääketieteellinen erehdys
  • lääketieteellinen virhe
  • lääketieteelliset erehdykset
  • Medicinsk felbehandling

    Swedish

  • Behandlingsfel
  • Kirurgiska felbehandling
  • Kritiska medicinska incidenter
  • Medicinska misstag
  • Operation på fel sida

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019300

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