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Descriptor English: Patient Harm
Descriptor Spanish: Daño del Paciente
Descriptor peligro para el paciente
Scope note: Medida de la SEGURIDAD DEL PACIENTE considerando los errores o equivocaciones que dan lugar a peligro para el paciente. Incluyen errores en la administración de medicamentos y otras medicaciones (ERRORES DE MEDICACIÓN), errores en el desarrollo de procedimientos o en el empleo de otros tipos de tratamiento, en la utilización de equipo y en la interpretación de los resultados de laboratorio y accidentes evitables que afectan a los pacientes.
Descriptor Portuguese: Dano ao Paciente
Descriptor French: Préjudice au patient
Entry term(s): Harms, Patient
Tree number(s): N06.850.135.060.075.349
N06.850.725
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D064406
Scope note: A measure of PATIENT SAFETY considering errors or mistakes which result in harm to the patient. They include errors in the administration of drugs and other medications (MEDICATION ERRORS), errors in the performance of procedures or the use of other types of therapy, in the use of equipment, and in the interpretation of laboratory findings and preventable accidents involving patients.
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MO mortality
NU nursing
PC prevention & control
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
TD trends
VE veterinary
Public MeSH Note: 2014
History Note: 2014
DeCS ID: 55464
Unique ID: D064406
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2014/01/01
Date of Entry: 2013/07/08
Revision Date: 2018/06/29
Patient Harm - Preferred
Concept UI M0581490
Scope note A measure of PATIENT SAFETY considering errors or mistakes which result in harm to the patient. They include errors in the administration of drugs and other medications (MEDICATION ERRORS), errors in the performance of procedures or the use of other types of therapy, in the use of equipment, and in the interpretation of laboratory findings and preventable accidents involving patients.
Preferred term Patient Harm
Entry term(s) Harms, Patient



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