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...

An error (from the Latin errāre, meaning 'to wander') is an inaccurate or incorrect action, thought, or judgement. In statistics, "error" refers to the...

type I errors and type II errors is widely used in medical science, biometrics and computer science.[clarification needed] Intuitively, type I errors can...

interpretation due to the differences between medical testing and statistical hypothesis testing. A false positive error, or false positive, is a result that indicates...

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harmful complication, or other ill effect by any medical activity, including diagnosis, intervention, error, or negligence. First used in this sense in 1924...

practice in the medical community and causes injury or death to the patient, with most cases involving medical error. Claims of medical malpractice, when...

The negligence might arise from errors in diagnosis, treatment, aftercare or health management. An act of medical malpractice usually has three characteristics...

prosecute health care professionals for medical errors that result in harm to patients. Nurses and other medical practitioners closely monitored the trial...

applications in computer science and telecommunications, error detection and correction (EDAC) or error control are techniques that enable reliable delivery...

significant numbers of patients harmed and killed by medical errors. Recognizing that healthcare errors impact 1 in every 10 patients around the world, the...

Sentinel Events (SEs or ASE) which is an Australian national serious medical error or incident reporting system. It includes a set of preventable adverse...

outcomes associated with medical error, to modify behavior and judgment based on previous experiences, and to prevent repetition of errors leading to complications...

from an unsuitable or incorrect dosage or procedure, this is called a medical error and not an adverse effect. Adverse effects are sometimes referred to...

The standard error (SE) of a statistic (usually an estimate of a parameter) is the standard deviation of its sampling distribution or an estimate of that...

been active in trying to improve the medical system to reduce medical error. In 1994 he had an article, "Error in Medicine," published in JAMA, which...

emergency medicine particularly susceptible to medical error and near misses. One study identified an error rate of 18 per 100 registered patients in one...

medicine, prevention of medical error (and other "iatrogenesis"), and avoidance of unnecessary health care are a priority in modern medical systems. These topics...

404 (also known as 404: Error Not Found) is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller film directed by Prawaal Raman and written by Prawal Raman...

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Medical narcissism is a term coined by John Banja in his book, Medical Errors and Medical Narcissism. Banja defines "medical narcissism" as the need of...

been adopted by international standards organizations for medical devices (see #Use errors in health care below for references), suggests that accidents...

A never event is the "kind of mistake (medical error) that should never happen" in the field of medical treatment. According to the Leapfrog Group never...

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Josie, died at Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital of dehydration due to medical error after being hospitalized for second-degree burns. Following a financial...

Kimberly Mays and Arlena Twigg were switched at birth as a result of a medical error in a hospital in Wauchula, Florida; the events surrounding their case...

after the patient has gone home. Misdiagnosis is the leading cause of medical error in outpatient facilities. When the U.S. Institute of Medicine's groundbreaking...

books about it and it is thought to be underreported. As a preventable medical error, it occurs more frequently than "wrong site" surgery. The consequences...

Institute of Medicine that may have resulted in increased awareness of U.S. medical errors. The push for patient safety that followed its release continues. The...

injury in medicine is by misdiagnosis and medical error. These result in iatrogenic injury and from medical error flows a cascade of effects and results...