**7. Conclusion**

There is an urgent need to develop a commonly accepted definition of the "medical error" among the scientific community, which will contribute to further research regarding "error phenomena" in healthcare, facilitating data collection, synthesis, and analysis, avoiding the usage of terms with a similar meaning. Furthermore, it will contribute to a better quality control of the offered healthcare services and will also serve legal and insurance purposes. As every "human error," "medical errors" do not constitute unpredictable situations but the outcome of aggregated risk factors. The analysis of errors allows early identification and change of the conditions that favor such errors. The causes of errors in healthcare are not unambiguous or independent from each other.
