The University of Chicago Header Logo

Patient Harm

"Patient Harm" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
A measure of PATIENT SAFETY considering errors or mistakes which result in harm to the patient. They include errors in the administration of drugs and other medications (MEDICATION ERRORS), errors in the performance of procedures or the use of other types of therapy, in the use of equipment, and in the interpretation of laboratory findings and preventable accidents involving patients.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient Harm" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patient Harm" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 6 publications over 3 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.