Med Errors Modules Quiz

This type of analysis was developed to help understand why errors occur and to increase patient safety. The goal is not to find who is to blame.

Withholding of relevant health information from the patient if nondisclosure is believed to be in the best interest of the patient.

A term for preventable adverse event.

Acknowledging fault or responsibility, communicating regret for harm, promising not to repeat, and attempting to compensate are the four components of what?

"A charge or duty imposed in faith or confidence or as a condition of some relationship; dependence on something future or contigent [essentially] hope," is Websters definition for what word?