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The confusion related to the term accident led to use of the term unintended. Now the preferred terms are unintended injuries, unintended illnesses and unintended deaths. Also influencing the change in terms were workplace violence cases involving intentional incidents and consequences. Such cases don t fit the idea of accidents. 

Accident The occurrence of a sequence of events that produce unintended injury, death, or property damage. Accident refers to the event, not the result of the event. 

Adverse drug reaction may be defined as any response to a drug which is noxious (injurious) and unintended, and which occurs at doses of an appropriately given drug used in man for prophylaxis, diagnosis or therapy excluding therapeutic failures. ... 

The toxicity of plants, venoms, and other poisons used in armaments posed perils to those who wielded them, and the mythology and the history of poison weapons is rife with examples of accidental self-injury and unintended collateral damage. The use of windborne toxins also involved blowback problems, as acknowledged by Kautilya in his Arthashastra. He cautioned that protective salves and other remedies must be applied before deploying poisonous smokes. Toxic weapons are notoriously difficult to control and often resulted in the destruction of noncombatants as well as soldiers, especially in siege situations. 

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Acute neurological effects of cannabis administration include headache, tremor, impaired balance, and impaired gross and fine motor coordination (37,38,40). The latter, especially in conjunction with drowsiness, increases the risk of motor vehicle accidents, falls, and other unintended injuries (41). Physical activity by subjects under the influence of caimabis should be limited and performed only in a protected environment that minimizes the risk of injury. Subjects should be advised not to drive, operate machinery, or engage in other potentially hazardous activities until it is clear that their coordination (and mental alertness) has returned to normal. 

Chapter 6 is titled Measuring Outcomes. It commences with additional discussion of the reliability and validity of measurements. Subjects covered are injury statistics, other statistics, behavioral and work-site observations, employee surveys, analytical equipment measures, workplace audits, unintended outcomes, and practical considerations. 

Retrospective reviews of medical records aim to assess the nature, incidence and economic impact of adverse events and to provide some information on their causes. Adverse events are defined as an unintended injury caused by medical management rather than the disease process that results in some definite injury or, at the very least, spent on additional days in hospital (Box 4.1). Definitions are critical in patient safety and one has to be constantly aware of differences in terminology. For instance, a study by Andrews et al. (1997) in the United States showed a 17.7% rate of serious adverse events in a surgical unit, much higher than most other studies. However, their definition of adverse event was different from that usually employed and they used observation rather than record review, as most other studies do. These are not flaws the study is a good one. The point is... 

An adverse event is an unintended injury caused by medical management... 

The injury has to be unintended, since injury can occur deliberately and with good reason (e.g. amputation). 

Drugs that cause unintended muscle injury can also exhibit fiber-type specificity (Bakhtiar, 2008 Kuncl, 2009). Again the statins serve as an instructive example. Preclinical studies in rats have shown that statin-induced muscle injury predominately affects the fast glycolytic fibers (Smith et al., 1991 Westwood et al., 2005). Conversely, fibrates have been shown to exhibit a type 1 fiber specificity both for efficacy and myotoxicity (De Souza et al., 2006). The differences in protein expression, metabolism, and mitochondrial function and number between the fiber types have been implicated in the differences seen in the sensitivity to particular drugs (Sirvent et al., 2008 Kuncl, 2009 Anadon et al., 2014). Identifying a fiber-type specific effect is currently done by immunohistochemistry, which is labor intensive and limits the feasibility of assessing routinely in preclinical studies. Further, a muscle biopsy would be required in clinical studies, which is impractical in most situations. 

An occurrence in a sequence of events that may produce unintended injury, illness, death, and/or property damage. The term often implies that the event was not preventable. From a loss prevention perspective, use of this term is discouraged since occupational injuries and Ulnesses should be considered preventable, and the use of incident is recommended instead. See also Incident. 

Hingorani, M., Wong, T. and Vafidis, G. 1999. Patients and doctors attitudes to amount of information given after unintended injury during treatment Cross sectional, questionnaire survey. BMJ, 318(7184), 640-41. 

Adverse describes a negative consequence of care that results in unintended injury or illness, which may or may not have been preventable. 

For the purpose of RIDDOR an accident is a separate, identifiable, unintended incident that causes physical injury. 

To avoid people injury, property, and business loss for unintended energy of the... 

The National Safety Council (USA) defines an accident as that occurrence in a sequence of events that usually produces unintended injury or illness, or death and/or property damage. This definition, too, refers to the contact and exchange of energy where the harm is done as the accident phase of the sequence of events. The entire sequence of events, the loss causation sequence, is the accident The unintended injury referred to is caused by the exchange of energy. 

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