Category
page 1Medical error

iatrogenesis
right|framed|Ancient Greek painting in a vase, showing a physician () Bloodletting|bleeding a patient
medical error
preventable adverse effect of medical care, whether evident or harmful to the patient or not
false positives and false negatives
types of error in data reporting, where false positive is an error in which a test result incorrectly indicates the presence of a condition, while a false negative is the opposite error where the test fails to indicate the actual presence
Martha Mitchell effect
labelling real experiences as delusional
1990 Clinic of Zaragoza radiotherapy accident
1990 Spanish radiological accident
Extravasation
medical condition
cascade effect
inevitable and sometimes unforeseen chain of events due to an act affecting a system