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Kinn's Chapter 16
Term | Definition |
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adverse event | an injury caused by medical management rather than underlying condition of the patient |
authenticated | proved; with regard to medical records it applies to a signature initials or computer keystroke by the maker of the record to verify that the record is correct |
benchmarks | items or factors that serve as standards against which other items or factors can be measured or judged |
circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or strategy |
contraindications | factors such as symptoms or conditions that make a particular treatment or procedure inadvisable |
disparities | fundamentally different and often incongruous elements; elements that are markedly distinct in quality or character |
encrypted | encoded; converted from one system of communication to another |
erroneous | containing or characterized by error or assumption |
gradients | changes in response with distance from a stimulus |
near miss | a situation in which an error is caught or corrected before it affects the patient |
nosocomial | originating or taking place in a hospital |
potentially compensable event (CPE) | an adverse occurrence usually involving a patient that could result in a financial obligation for a business or organization |
quality assurance (QA) | activities designed to increase the quality of a product or service through processor system changes that increase efficiency or effectiveness |
sentinel events | unexpected occurrences involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof |
standards | models or examples established by authority custom or general consent; something set up or established by authority as a rule for the measure of quality weight extent value or quality |
transposed | altered in sequence; interchanged |