medical errors

Preferred Label : medical errors;

MeSH definition : 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.;

MeSH synonym : medical mistakes; medical mistake; mistake, medical; mistakes, medical; errors, medical; error, medical; medical error;

MeSH hyponym : Never Event; Critical Medical Incidents; surgical errors; Wrong-Site Surgery; Wrong-Patient Surgery; Medical Errors of Commission; Medical Errors of Omission; Wrong-Procedure Errors; Error, Wrong-Procedure; Errors, Wrong-Procedure; Wrong Procedure Errors; Wrong-Procedure Error; Omission Medical Error; Omission Medical Errors; Medical Error of Omission; Surgeries, Wrong-Site; Surgery, Wrong-Site; Wrong Site Surgery; Wrong-Site Surgeries; Errors, Surgical; Error, Surgical; Surgical Error; Critical Medical Incident; Incident, Critical Medical; Incidents, Critical Medical; Medical Incident, Critical; Medical Incidents, Critical; Critical Incidents, Medical; Critical Incident, Medical; Incident, Medical Critical; Incidents, Medical Critical; Medical Critical Incident; Medical Critical Incidents; Surgeries, Wrong-Patient; Surgery, Wrong-Patient; Wrong Patient Surgery; Wrong-Patient Surgeries; Event, Never; Events, Never; Never Events; Medical Error of Commission; Commission Medical Error; Commission Medical Errors;

MeSH annotation : coordinate IM with specific disease or procedure (IM); do not confuse with MALPRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS & MEDICATION ERRORS are also available; coordinate with specific disease or procedure; do not confuse with MALPRACTICE;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical error;

Details

Origin ID

D019300;

UMLS CUI

C0376531;

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]
Record concept(s)
- Critical Medical Incidents [MeSH concept]
- Medical Errors of Commission [MeSH concept]
- Medical Errors of Omission [MeSH concept]
- Never Event [MeSH concept]
- Wrong-Patient Surgery [MeSH concept]
- Wrong-Procedure Errors [MeSH concept]
- Wrong-Site Surgery [MeSH concept]
- medical errors [MeSH concept]
- surgical errors [MeSH concept]
See also
- iatrogenic disease [MeSH Descriptor]
- malpractice [MeSH Descriptor]
- patient harm [MeSH Descriptor]
- risk management [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- patient harm [MeSH Descriptor]
- patient safety [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Qualitative Concept [UMLS semantic type]

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