What is a medical event?
Medical event - occurring in the course of providing or as a result of providing or omitting to provide a health care service:
(a) infection of the patient with a biological pathogen,
(b) bodily injury or disorder of the patient,
(c) death of the patient,
which, with a high probability, could have been avoided if the health service had been provided in accordance with current medical knowledge or if another available diagnostic or therapeutic method had been used, unless there were foreseeable normal consequences of the method to which the patient gave informed consent.
Thus, a medical event is an occurrence:
- In the course of providing health care services;
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