Medical error

A medical error is a preventable adverse effect of care, 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. Globally it is estimated that 142,000 people died in 2013 from adverse effects of medical treatment up from 94,000 in 1990.[1]

Resources

• Wikipedia - Medical error
• NPR - Report: Errors in Diagnosis Are Common & Will Take Teamwork to Fix. by Julie Appleby, 22 Sep 2015

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