Iatrogenesis
latrogenic disease

The incidence of iatrogenesis may be misleading in some cases.

The degree of association of any particular condition with iatrogenesis is unclear and in some cases controversial.

However, these solutions carry the risk of worsening or perpetuating the iatrogenesis in the long term.

Based on these figures, iatrogenesis may cause 225,000 deaths per year in the United States (excluding recognizable error).

In psychology, iatrogenesis can occur due to misdiagnosis (including diagnosis with a false condition as was the case of hystero-epilepsy).

Patient Safety Network - includes a glossary and articles on adverse effects, drug reactions, medical error, iatrogenesis, among others.

The father of antisepsis, or infection prevention, was, in fact, the father of iatrogenesis - physician-induced disease.

At present (as of 2008), a controversy exists in the scholarly literature regarding grief therapy's relative efficacy and the possible harm from it (iatrogenesis).

Examples of iatrogenesis:

Illich, a philosopher, argued that the medical profession harms people through iatrogenesis, a process in which illness and social problems increase due to medical intervention.

The largest numbers of axillary nerve palsies arise due to stretch injuries which are caused by blunt trauma or iatrogenesis.

Terms to describe this new area of error production include the label technological iatrogenesis for the process and e-iatrogenic for the individual error.

Brain injuries occur due to a very wide range of conditions, illnesses, injuries, and as a result of iatrogenesis (adverse effects of medical treatment).

An extremely useful site, with a glossary and articles on all kinds of threats to patient safety, including adverse effects, drug reactions, medical error, iatrogenesis, etc.

Healthcare information technology can also result in iatrogenesis if design and engineering are substandard, as illustrated in a 14-part detailed analysis done at the University of Sydney.

Medical errors and overmedication and other forms of iatrogenesis (harms caused by medical treatment) are also the focus of complaints and negative coverage.

Centring his discussion on an analysis of present patterns of mortality Illich argues that medicine is not only ineffective but causes positive damage (iatrogenesis) at three levels.

The factors responsible for the development of comorbidity can be chronic infections, inflammations, involutional and systematic metabolic changes, iatrogenesis, social status, ecology and genetic susceptibility.

As such, the term technological iatrogenesis describes this new category of adverse events that are an emergent property resulting from technological innovation creating system and microsystem disturbances.

Contact sports such as football and hockey can cause the injury Other cases have been caused by repeated crutch pressure or injuries accidentally caused by health professionals (iatrogenesis).

Others have criticized Hammond specifically for using therapeutic techniques to gather information from clients that rely solely on information fed by the therapist in a manner that highly suggests iatrogenesis.

TSEs are unique diseases in that their aetiology may be genetic, sporadic or infectious via ingestion of infected foodstuffs and via Iatrogenesis means (e.g. blood transfusion).

No doubt, Cohen was inspired by the various and possible iatrogenesis, mutagen, teratology effects of these drugs on the unborn baby-especially when these drugs were used either in succession or combination.

"It is the pharmacist's professional responsibility to protect the public against iatrogenesis, physician-induced injury or disease in the area of drug prescribing especially as to overdosage, incompatibilities, contraindications, and synergistic drug actions."

The assignment of pathological nomenclature is rarely a benign process and can easily rise to the level of emotional iatrogenesis, especially when no alternatives outside of the diagnostic naming process have been considered.