Medication Error

Preferred Label : Medication Error;

NCIt definition : An error associated with the prescribing, dispensing, or giving/taking a medication by a healthcare professional, patient, or consumer that causes or leads to inappropriate medication use or patient harm.;

Alternative definition : CDISC-GLOSS: Any unintentional error in the prescribing, dispensing or administration of a medicinal product while in the control of the healthcare professional, patient or consumer. [HMA, Guideline on good pharmacovigilance practices (GVP)];

Details

Origin ID

C156627;

UMLS CUI

C0025115;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- MEDICATION ERROR [WHO-ART Preferred Term]
- Medical Errors [DeCS]
- Medication error [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Medication error (event) [SNOMED CT concept]
- medical error [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- medical errors [MeSH Descriptor]
- medical errors [MeSH concept]
- medication errors [MedlinePlus Topic]
- medication errors [MeSH Descriptor]
- medication errors [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Finding [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- MEDICATION ERROR [WHO-ART Preferred Term]
- Medication error [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Medication error (event) [SNOMED CT concept]
- medication errors [MedDRA High Level Group Term]
- medication errors [MedlinePlus Topic]
- medication errors [MeSH Descriptor]
- medication errors [MeSH concept]
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- CDISC Glossary Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Terminology [NCIt concept]

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