A nurse asks a doctor about medication for a patient in a hospital. The doctor accidentally tells the nurse to give the patient
the wrong medication, and the nurse follows the doctor’s orders. Which type of medical error has occurred? diagnostic error
medication error
equipment failure
An intern in a hospital reads an image from an X-ray and gives the patient a diagnosis. The image is hard to read, and the intern’s supervisor figures out that the diagnosis was wrong. Which type of medical error has occurred?
