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Care plans and the knowledge resources supporting planning care
adverse event
unintended event that has negative impact upon a care process

Planning care
Care plans and the knowledge resources supporting planning care
- care planning
  care activity management where a care plan is managed
- care goal
  desired achievement of one or more care activities
- intended outcome
  desired achievement of a care process addressing health needs
- care guideline
  set of systematically developed statements based on knowledge to assist the decisions made by care actors about care activities to be performed with regard to specified health issues
- protocol
  customized care guideline
- care pathway
  detailed guidance for each stage in the interdisciplinary management of a subject of care
- care plan
  dynamic, personalized plan including identified needed care activity, health objectives and care goals, relating to one or more specified health needs in a care process
- core care plan
  knowledge providing reusable content addressing one or more specified health issues
- social care plan
  care plan addressing social issues
- clinical care plan
  care plan addressing clinical issues
- integrated care plan
  care plan crossing organizational, professional and contextual borders
- risk
  combination of the probability of occurrence of harm and the severity of that harm
- unintended event
  phenomenon that is not part of the normal course of a process
- adverse event
  unintended event that has negative impact upon a care process
- adverse event management
  set of care activities performed in response to an adverse event

adverse event

unintended event that has negative impact upon a care process

EXAMPLE 1 An infection acquired during a hospital stay

EXAMPLE 2 A drug may be used as recommended but cause allergic reaction when the drug allergy was not known before the treatment.

EXAMPLE 3 An accident in connection to a care activity

EXAMPLE 4 A mishap during correctly performed care activity

Note 1 to entry: 'Iatrogenesis' or 'iatrogeny' is a common cause of adverse events.

Note 2 to entry: Adverse events can occur during appropriate care activities

Note 3 to entry: Adverse events may cause harm

Table 1. Specializations / Generalizations of **adverse event**
Specialization of			Generalization of
unintended event

Table 2. Associations of **adverse event**
Association from		Association name		Association to
1..*	adverse event	negatively influences		1..*	care process
1..*	adverse event	requires		1..1	adverse event management

adverse eventUML Representation — Figure 1. adverse event (UML Representation)