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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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