Preventability criteria
| Preventable: any identifiable actions or missed actions that would have prevented the death | |
| Misdiagnosis | Final mortality diagnosis significantly differing from ED disposition diagnosis in clinical medical care |
| Delayed diagnosis | Delay in making the correct diagnosis and providing timely medical care with potential contribution to early mortality |
| Inappropriate medical management | Other actions or missed actions that would result in the unexpected death of the patient |
| Non-preventable: the mortality event was unavoidable by any means of the currently available standard of care. | |