Adverse event

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	570393
Registration status:	Health, Standard 29/08/2014
Definition:	Any harmful event befalling a patient while in the care of the health system. Such an event may be the result of professional negligence, systems failure, mistakes, fatigue or other causes.

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Reference documents:	Harris P, Nagy S, Vardaxis N (editors) 2010. Mosby’s Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, 2nd Australian and New Zealand Edition. NSW: Mosby Elsevier page 49
Relational attributes
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