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Parent topics
- Medical error [r]: Mistakes made in a medical setting with respect to patient care, sanitation or medical administration. A mistake is less than optimal action, thus failure to set up efficient procedures and routines which minimize mistakes is medical error. [e]
Subtopics
- ventilator-associated pneumonia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- surgical wound infection [r]: Infections that occur at the site of a surgical incision [e]
Other related topics
- Staphylococcus aureus [r]: Facultatively anaerobic, Gram-positive pathogenic coccus capable of producing suppurative lesions, furunculosis, pyemia, osteomyelitis, food poisoning, and may be resistant to commonly used antibiotics. [e]
- Clostridium difficile [r]: A bacteria species causing infectious diarhhea and pseudomembranous colitis. [e]
