Surgical research has focused considerably on the risks of short term harm (surgical complications), although with varying extensiveness and clarity.
Therefore the opportunity exists to detect and intervene with people at risk of alcohol-related harm before complications occur and drinking patterns become entrenched.
There is an opportunity in family practice to detect problems and intervene with people at risk of alcohol-related harm before complications occur.
While patients with SSNS have good overall prognoses, the challenge is to optimally control the disease while minimizing potential harm from complications of the disease and its treatment.
Adverse events included an adverse reaction, harms, or complications associated with any healthcare intervention.
Moreover, the increased risks of harm and complication of clinical practice with intensification warrant additional focus.
It could be an adverse event, adverse effect, adverse reaction, harms, or complications (table 1) associated with any healthcare intervention (such as pharmaceutical interventions, diagnostic procedures, surgical interventions, or medical devices).
The key question is at which cut-off value the magnitude of benefits (possible the early detection of CRC or the removal of adenomas) is sufficient to outweigh the harms (burden, complications, demand on colonoscopy capacity and costs of screening).
There are also potential harms and complications from the LDCT screening which include radiation exposure, over diagnosis, the use of invasive procedures for diagnosis and the high false positive rate.
The following definition of an AE for HC clients was adapted from that used in international studies of hospital AEs and a recent Canadian study of HC AEs: an unintended physical, mental or social injury, harm or complication that results in disability, death or increased use of healthcare resources, and that is caused by health care rather than by the client's underlying disease process.
