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article, discuss the issue on the talk page, or create a new article, as appropriate. (December 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) A medical error is a preventable adverse effect of care, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. This might include an inaccurate or incomplete diagnosis or treatment of a disease, injury, syndrome, behavior, infection, or other ailment. Globally, it is estimated that 142,000 people died in 2013 from adverse effects of medical treatment; this is an increase from 94,000 in 1990.[1] However, a 2016 study of the number of deaths that were a result of medical error in the U.S. placed the yearly death rate in the U.S. alone at 251,454 deaths, which suggests that the 2013 global estimation may not be accurate.[2][3] Contents 1 Definitions 2 Impact 2.1 Difficulties in measuring frequency of errors 3 Causes 3.1 Healthcare complexity 3.2 System and process design 3.3 Competency, education, and training 3.4 Human factors and ergonomics 4 Examples 4.1 Errors in diagnosis 4.2 Misdiagnosis of psychological disorders 4.3 Most common misdiagnoses 4.4 Outpatient vs. inpatient 5 After an error has occurred 5.1 Recognizing that mistakes are not isolated events 5.2 Placing the practice of medicine in perspective 5.3 Disclosing mistakes 5.3.1 To oneself 5.3.2 To patients 5.3.3 To non-physicians 5.3.4 To other physicians 5.3.5 To the physician's institution 5.3.6 Use of rationalization to cover up medical errors 5.3.7 By presence of to the patient 5.4 Cause-specific preventive measures 5.5 In specific specialties 5.6 Legal procedure 6 Prevention 6.1 Reporting requirements 7 Misconceptions 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links Definitions[edit] The word error in medicine is used as a label for nearly all of the problems harming patients. Medical errors are often described as human errors in healthcare.[4] Whether the label is medical error or human error, one definition used for it in medicine says that it occurs when