Health care quality assurance/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Medical error [r]: Mistakes made in a medical setting with respect to patient care, sanitation or medical administration. A mistake is less than optimal action, thus failure to set up efficient procedures and routines which minimize mistakes is medical error. ^[e]
• Safety engineering [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• Diagnostic error [r]: Incorrect diagnoses after physical examination, medical history taking or technical diagnostic procedures. ^[e]
• Medication error [r]: 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. (NLM MeSH) ^[e]
• Iatrogenic disease [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nosocomial infection [r]: Add brief definition or description

Co-topics

• Infection control [r]: Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms. ^[e]
• Observer variation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Patient identification [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Process control chart [r]: Tabulated graphical arrangement of test results and other pertinent data for each procedure, arranged in chronological sequence for the entire assessment. ^[e]

Related topics

• Antibiotic resistance [r]: The development of resistance to an antibiotic in an organism originally susceptible to it ^[e]
• Community-acquired infection [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Crew resource management [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Evidence-based medicine [r]: The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. ^[e]

• Medical malpractice [r]: Improper, unskilled, or negligent treatment of a patient by a physician, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, or other health care professional. ^[e] MeSH differentiates malpractice from error'