Examples of Errors
- Misdiagnosis of an illness, failure to diagnose or delay of a diagnosis. This type of error could be a direct mistake of a doctor or caused when the doctor is acting on incorrect information supplied by some other person.
- Giving the wrong drug or (wrong patient, wrong chemical, wrong dose, wrong time, wrong route)
- Giving two or more drugs that interact unfavorably or cause poisonous metabolic byproducts
- Wrong-site surgery, such as amputating the wrong limb
- Retained surgical instruments. In particular, gossypiboma, resulting from a surgical sponge being left behind inside the patient after surgery
- Patients' implementation of drugs and treatments
- Using race as a diagnosis, not a factor
- Transplanting organs of the wrong blood type
- Incorrect record-keeping
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