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Professionalism, errors and patient safety
A practice question in the style of the MCCQE MCQ exam. Choose your answer to see the explanation.
A wrong drug reaches the patient but causes no harm. What is this?
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The answer is B: A no-harm incident.
It reached the patient without causing harm.
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