medication errors

Preferred Label : medication errors;

MeSH definition : Errors in prescribing, dispensing, or administering medication with the result that the patient fails to receive the correct drug or the indicated proper drug dosage.;

MeSH synonym : error, medication; errors, medication; medication error;

CISMeF synonym : errors, drug use; use error, drug; use errors, drug;

MeSH hyponym : Look Alike Sound Alike Drug Substitution Errors; Lookalike Soundalike Drug Errors; Look-Alike Sound-Alike Medication Errors; Look Alike Sound Alike Medication Errors; Lookalike Soundalike Medication Errors; LASA Medication Errors; Error, LASA Medication; LASA Medication Error; Medication Error, LASA; Medication Errors, LASA; Look-Alike Sound-Alike Drug Errors; Look Alike Sound Alike Drug Errors; Lookalike Soundalike Drug Substitution Errors; Look Alike Drug Name Errors; Lookalike Drug Name Errors; High Alert Medication Error; High-Alert Medication Errors; Medication Error, High-Alert; Medication Errors, High-Alert; High-Alert Drug Error; Drug Error, High-Alert; High Alert Drug Error; High-Alert Drug Errors;

Related MeSH term : drug use error; Drug Use Errors; Error, Drug Use;

MeSH annotation : coordinate IM with specific disease / drug ther (IM) & specific drug / ther use (IM); coordinate with specific disease /drug ther & specific drug /ther use;

Details

Origin ID

D008508;

UMLS CUI

C0025115;

Allowable qualifiers
- adverse effects [MeSH Qualifier]
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- mortality [MeSH Qualifier]
- nursing [MeSH Qualifier]
- prevention and control [MeSH Qualifier]
- psychology [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
- veterinary [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Drug administration error [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Drug administration error [MedDRA LLT]
- Drug maladministration [MedDRA LLT]
- Drug misadministration [MedDRA LLT]
- MEDICATION ERROR [WHO-ART Preferred Term]
- Medication Error [NCIt concept]
- Medication Misplaced [NCIt concept]
- Medication error [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Medication error (event) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Wrong drug [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- inappropriate schedule of drug administration [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- medical error [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- medication errors [MedlinePlus Topic]
- medication errors [MedDRA High Level Group Term]
- wrong drug administered [MedDRA Preferred Term]
Record concept(s)
- High-Alert Medication Error [MeSH concept]
- Look-Alike Drug Name Errors [MeSH concept]
- Look-Alike Sound-Alike Drug Substitution Errors [MeSH concept]
- drug use error [MeSH concept]
- medication errors [MeSH concept]
See also
- drug overdose [MeSH Descriptor]
- drug therapy [MeSH Descriptor]
- prescription drug misuse [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- drug prescriptions [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Finding [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- MEDICATION ERROR [WHO-ART Preferred Term]
- Medication Error [NCIt concept]
- Medication error [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Medication error (event) [SNOMED CT concept]
- medication errors [MedDRA High Level Group Term]
- medication errors [MedlinePlus Topic]

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