National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Medication Error

Synonyms

Medication Error

medication error

Definitions

An error associated with the prescribing, dispensing, or giving/taking a medication by a healthcare professional, patient, or consumer that causes or leads to inappropriate medication use or patient harm.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C156627

ALT_DEFINITION

Any unintentional error in the prescribing, dispensing or administration of a medicinal product while in the control of the healthcare professional, patient or consumer. [HMA, Guideline on good pharmacovigilance practices (GVP)]

code

C156627

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C67497

Contributing_Source

CDISC-GLOSS

DEFINITION

An error associated with the prescribing, dispensing, or giving/taking a medication by a healthcare professional, patient, or consumer that causes or leads to inappropriate medication use or patient harm.

FULL_SYN

Medication Error

medication error

label

Medication Error

Preferred_Name

Medication Error

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C156627

Semantic_Type

Conceptual Entity

UMLS_CUI

C0025115

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C43369

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