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醫療疏失，又稱醫療過失、醫療錯誤、醫療失誤，通常指可以被避免的醫療照護不良反應，無論它是否明顯的被證明對病人有危害。它可能是源自於不精確或錯誤的診斷、或療法。造成嚴重受傷或死亡的醫療錯誤則稱為醫療事故。

定義

一般來說，當醫療服務的提供者，選擇了一個不適當的醫療方法，或是雖然醫療服務提供者，選擇了一個適當的醫療方式，但是執行的方式不正確，就會發生醫療錯誤。

参考文献

醫師於醫療疏失的刑事責任

延伸閱讀

参见

• 醫療失當


• 病人安全


• Serious adverse event


• 药物不良反应


• Biosafety


• 
  Fatal Care: Survive in the U.S. Health System (book)


• 醫療事故


• Medical resident work hours


• 睡眠剥夺


• 
  Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005


• Patient safety organization


• Quality Use of Medicines

外部連結

• 
  开放式目录计划中和Patient safety相关的内容


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  Medical Errors & Patient Safety from U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality


• 
  Dead by Mistake^{[永久失效連結]} - Dead by Mistake - Hearst Newspapers Report, August 2009


• 
  Report to the President on Medical Errors from February 2000


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  Information on Medical Errors from medstat-info.org


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  Report on Medical Errors from Consumers Union May 19, 2009


• 
  The Savvy Patient Toolkit to help minimize errors^{[永久失效連結]}
  


• Medical Misdiagnosis in the NHS


• To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System (2000)