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Kinn's Chapter 16

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adverse event   an injury caused by medical management rather than underlying condition of the patient  
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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  
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benchmarks   items or factors that serve as standards against which other items or factors can be measured or judged  
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circumvent   to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or strategy  
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contraindications   factors such as symptoms or conditions that make a particular treatment or procedure inadvisable  
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disparities   fundamentally different and often incongruous elements; elements that are markedly distinct in quality or character  
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encrypted   encoded; converted from one system of communication to another  
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erroneous   containing or characterized by error or assumption  
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gradients   changes in response with distance from a stimulus  
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near miss   a situation in which an error is caught or corrected before it affects the patient  
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nosocomial   originating or taking place in a hospital  
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potentially compensable event (CPE)   an adverse occurrence usually involving a patient that could result in a financial obligation for a business or organization  
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quality assurance (QA)   activities designed to increase the quality of a product or service through processor system changes that increase efficiency or effectiveness  
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sentinel events   unexpected occurrences involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof  
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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  
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transposed   altered in sequence; interchanged  
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