Different Terms

Question 1

Medication Error

Answer 1

• preventable event
• cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm
• medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer
• related to professional practice, health care products, procedures, and systems

Question 2

Adverse Event

Answer 2

• Injury caused by medical management
• Injury resulting from medical intervention
• Unexpected, undesirable, usually unanticipated event
• Event of neglected causing clinical or psychological injury
• Injury caused by medical management resulting in measurable disability

Question 3

Adverse Drug Event (ADE)

Answer 3

Use of medication at any dose that results in adverse outcome in a patient

Question 4

Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR)

Answer 4

• the response to a drug is toxic and unintended
• occurs at doses normally used for prophylaxis, diagnosis, or therapy of disease, or for the modification of physiological function
• ex: anaphylaxis

Question 5

Side Effect

Answer 5

Expected, well-known reaction resulting in little or no change in patient management