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... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Accidents > Accident Prevention > Safety > Patient Harm
... > Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Accidents > Accident Prevention > Safety > Patient Harm
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Accidents > Accident Prevention > Safety > Patient Harm

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Patient Harm  

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Scope note

  • A measure of PATIENT SAFETY considering errors or mistakes which result in harm to the patient. They include errors in the administration of drugs and other medications (MEDICATION ERRORS), errors in the performance of procedures or the use of other types of therapy, in the use of equipment, and in the interpretation of laboratory findings and preventable accidents involving patients.

History note

  • 2014

In other languages

  • potilasvahingot

    Finnish

  • hoitovahingot
  • hoitovahinko
  • potilaalle aiheutunut haitta
  • potilaalle aiheutunut vahinko
  • potilasvahinko
  • Patientskada

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D064406

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