Medical error
Preventable adverse effect of medical care / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 inaccurate or incomplete diagnosis or treatment of a disease, injury, syndrome, behavior, infection, or other ailment.
The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (December 2010) |