a response by a patient to one or more of the following causes: (1) medical treatment, (2) surgical treatment, (3) a procedure to help diagnose something, (4) a doctor, (5) a surgeon, and (6) exposure to the environment of a health care facility. The response is usually a bad one and the cause is usually accidental.
Induced in a patient by a physician's words or actions. Literally, physician-generated. (From the Greek: iatros=physician + genic=generation.) Detailed definition is provided due to a word-related learning-disability common to most MHPs-- few seem capable of grasping the meaning of "iatrogenic," particularly when a situation necessitates appending to it the word "damage," "trauma," "destruction," or "death." This occurs all too often.
a term used to describe a disease, disorder, or medical condition that is a direct result of medical treatment
State of ill health caused by medical treatment, usually by a specific medicine.
Induced by a physician or a drug
Illness resulting from a physician's professional activity or from the activity of other health professionals.
any adverse condition, such as an infection, in an individual occurring as the result of treatment by a physician.
any consequence of treatment by a physician.
(Reber) A disorder produced by a physician. The term is used generally for any abnormal condition, physical or mental, that was caused by the effects of attempts at treatment.
induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment)
Cases acquired as the result of accidental transmission from one patient to another by medical or surgical procedures or by the ingestion of prion-infected beef. close window
induced inadvertently by a HCW or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures. Used especially in reference to an infectious disease or other complication of medical treatment.
Complications, injuries or unfavorable result that are due to medical care, especially drug reactions and hospital-acquired infections.
Induced inadvertently by the medical treatment or procedures of a physician.
Related to an abnormal state or condition produced in a patient through inadvertant or erroneous treatment.
a disease or disorder that is induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures.
refers to an unfavorable response to medical or surgical treatment; symptoms attributable to a medical therapy (e.g., peripheral neuropathy caused by an antiviral drug). See also nosocomial.
Resulting from the professional activities of physicians, or, more broadly, from the activities of health professionals. Originally applied to disorders induced in the patient by autosuggestion based on a physician's examination, manner, or discussion, the term is currently applied to any undesirable condition in a patient occurring as the result of treatment by a physician (or other health professional), especially to infections acquired by the patient during the course of treatment. Pertaining to an illness or injury resulting from a procedure, therapy, or other element of care.
literally, “physician inducedâ€, conditions, diseases, or other adverse reactions caused as a result of medical treatment.
Resulting from an action of a physician.
Arising as a complication of medical treatment.
A disorder with is caused by a medical treatment. In CJD a certain number of cases appear to have resulted from injections of infected growth hormone material.
A disorder caused by medical treatment, e.g. CJD cases resulting from injections of growth hormone or transplants of tissue from an infected donor.
Due to medical intervention
Occurring without known cause. This is sometimes the result of a medical complication.
Describes an illness caused by medical treatment. Incontinence can be the result of radiation, medication, or surgery.
In maintenance. Failures induced by own employees. Note: Iatros means physician in Greek, and -genic, meaning induced by, is derived from the International Scientific Vocabulary. Combined, of course, they become iatrogenic, meaning physician-induced. Iatrogenic disease is obviously, then, disease which is caused by a physician.
Resulting from medical treatment.
Illness, disease, or imbalances created by medical or non-medical treatments that were not present before treatment.
