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medical error: a standalone construct

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medicalerror1 CONSTRUCTMedical errorLEAPE · PATIENT SAFETY

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Patient safety

a planned action in patient care that fails to be completed as intended or uses the wrong plan, framed as a systems problem rather than individual failing.

In patient safety, medical error refers to a planned action in patient care that fails to be completed as intended or uses the wrong plan, framed as a systems problem rather than individual failing. This meaning comes from Leape (1994) in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association.[1]

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References

  1. Leape, L. L. (1994). Error in Medicine. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 272(23), 1851. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1994.03520230061039

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