See Also: medical errors(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
medication errors(medicine)
SPECIAL ERRORS(law)
Comedy of Errors, The(dictionary)
Net errors and omissions(finance)
refractive errors(medicine)
ASSIGNMENT OF ERRORS(law)
diagnostic errors(medicine)
Inadvertent Errors(money)

hepatitis, chronic (medicine) and medical errors (medicine)


hepatitis, chronic (medicine)


hepatitis, chronic


A collective term for a clinical and pathological syndrome which has several causes and is characterised by varying degrees of hepatocellular necrosis and inflammation. Specific forms of chronic hepatitis include autoimmune hepatitis (hepatitis, autoimmune), chronic hepatitis b (hepatitis b, chronic), chronic hepatitis c (hepatitis c, chronic), chronic hepatitis d (hepatitis d, chronic), indeterminate chronic viral hepatitis, cryptogenic chronic hepatitis and drug-related chronic hepatitis (hepatitis, chronic, drug-induced).


medical errors (medicine)


medical errors
Errors or mistakes committed by Health professionals which result in harm to the patient. They include errors in diagnosis (diagnostic errors), errors in the administration of drugs and Other medications (medication errors), errors in the performance of surgical procedures, in the use of Other types of therapy, in the use of equipment, and in the interpretation of laboratory findings. Medical errors are differentiated from malpractice in that the former are regarded as honest mistakes or accidents while the latter is the result of negligence, reprehensible ignorance, or criminal intent.