Wrong Diagnoses Flashcards

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Medical Error

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and unintended act or one doesn’t achieve its intended outcome, failure of a planned action to be completed as intended, use of wrong plan to achieve an aim or deviation from process of care that may or may not cause harm

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pre-analytical error

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sample handling error or wrong test chosen

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analytical error

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sensitivity - ability of a test to correctly identify positive cases
specificity - ability of a test to correctly identify negative cases

error during test

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