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In pharmaceuticals, an adverse event (AE) is any unexpected or harmful medical occurrence that happens to a patient during medical treatment or a clinical trial. Unlike direct side effects , an adverse event does not necessarily mean the medication directly caused the problem.
Variations in healthcare provider training & experience [46] [53] and failure to acknowledge the prevalence and seriousness of medical errors also increase the risk. [54] [55] The so-called July effect occurs when new residents arrive at teaching hospitals, causing an increase in medication errors according to a study of data from 1979 to 2006.
A list of events was compiled by the National Quality Forum and updated in 2012. [3] The NQF’s report recommends a national state-based event reporting system to improve the quality of patient care. Artificial insemination with the wrong donor sperm or donor egg; Unintended retention of a foreign body in a patient after surgery or other procedure
Patient safety is a discipline focused on improving health care through the prevention, reduction, reporting, and analysis of errors and other types of unnecessary harm that often lead to adverse patient events.
The CDC’s notice encouraged health-care providers “to report all adverse events that might be caused by vaccination to the CDC/FDA Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS),” by ...
Sentinel events can be caused by major mistakes and negligence on the part of a healthcare provider, and are closely investigated by healthcare regulatory authorities. Sentinel events are identified under The Joint Commission (TJC) accreditation policies to help aid in root cause analysis and to assist in development of preventive measures. The ...
21 (E930–E949) Drugs, medicinal and biological substances causing adverse effects in therapeutic use 22 (E950–E959) Suicide and self-inflicted injury 23 (E960–E969) Homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons
Adverse effects, like therapeutic effects of drugs, are a function of dosage or drug levels at the target organs, so they may be avoided or decreased by means of careful and precise pharmacokinetics, the change of drug levels in the organism in function of time after administration. Adverse effects may also be caused by drug interaction. This ...