 medical error
Medical error is may be defined as a preventable adverse effect of care, whether or not
it is evident or harmful to the patient. This might include an inaccurate or incomplete
diagnosis or treatment of a disease, injury, syndrome behavior, infection, or other ailment.
As a general acceptance, a medical error occurs when a health-care provider chose an
inappropriate method of care or the health provider chose the right solution of care
but executed it incorrectly. Medical errors are often described as human errors in
healthcare.
However, medical error definitions are subject to debate, as there are many types of
medical error from minor to major, and causality is often poorly determined. The
Health Grades study statistics, based on AHRQ MedPAR data, were based on
administrative records, not clinical records, and largely overlooked
multi-causality of outcomes.
Regarding mental illnesses, sufferers of
dissociative identity disorder usually have psychiatric histories that contain
three or more separate mental disorders and previous treatment failures. The
disbelief of some doctors around the validity of dissociative identity disorder
may also add to its misdiagnosis.
Studies have found that bipolar disorder has often been misdiagnosed as major
depression. Its early diagnosis necessitates that clinicians pay attention to the
features of the patient's depression and also look for present or prior hypomanic or
manic symptomatology.
The misdiagnosis of schizophrenia is also a common problem. There may be long delays
of patients getting a correct diagnosis of this disorder.
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