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Medical error

Quality:

Medical error - preventable adverse effect of medical care, whether evident or harmful to the patient or not. Article “Medical error” in English Wikipedia has 77.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 189 references and 31 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Medical error” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Medical error”, its content was written by 278 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 854 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 247 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1243 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #13986 in July 2004
  • Global: #18548 in June 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #83467 in April 2015
  • Global: #67931 in November 2011

There are 18 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Medical error
77.8717
2Chinese (zh)
醫療疏失
76.2673
3Turkish (tr)
Tıbbi hata
76.141
4German (de)
Behandlungsfehler
75.6004
5Polish (pl)
Błąd medyczny
43.6265
6Japanese (ja)
医療事故
37.8366
7Arabic (ar)
خطأ طبي
30.2874
8Dutch (nl)
Medische fout
28.7081
9Serbian (sr)
Лекарска грешка
26.5552
10Russian (ru)
Врачебная ошибка
26.4063
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Medical error" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Medical error
1 227 415
2Japanese (ja)
医療事故
993 698
3German (de)
Behandlungsfehler
402 298
4Russian (ru)
Врачебная ошибка
280 540
5Arabic (ar)
خطأ طبي
168 846
6Polish (pl)
Błąd medyczny
105 213
7French (fr)
Accident médical
82 841
8Portuguese (pt)
Erro médico
65 295
9Korean (ko)
의료 과실
43 368
10Finnish (fi)
Hoitovirhe
43 214
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Medical error" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Medical error
2 852
2Japanese (ja)
医療事故
1 685
3Russian (ru)
Врачебная ошибка
816
4German (de)
Behandlungsfehler
570
5Arabic (ar)
خطأ طبي
248
6Chinese (zh)
醫療疏失
241
7Polish (pl)
Błąd medyczny
194
8Korean (ko)
의료 과실
141
9French (fr)
Accident médical
119
10Portuguese (pt)
Erro médico
112
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Medical error" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Medical error
278
2German (de)
Behandlungsfehler
174
3Japanese (ja)
医療事故
108
4French (fr)
Accident médical
41
5Russian (ru)
Врачебная ошибка
35
6Arabic (ar)
خطأ طبي
33
7Polish (pl)
Błąd medyczny
33
8Portuguese (pt)
Erro médico
25
9Chinese (zh)
醫療疏失
21
10Finnish (fi)
Hoitovirhe
19
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Medical error" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Korean (ko)
의료 과실
2
2English (en)
Medical error
1
3Arabic (ar)
خطأ طبي
0
4Azerbaijani (az)
Həkim səhvi
0
5German (de)
Behandlungsfehler
0
6Persian (fa)
خطای پزشکی
0
7Finnish (fi)
Hoitovirhe
0
8French (fr)
Accident médical
0
9Japanese (ja)
医療事故
0
10Dutch (nl)
Medische fout
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Medical error" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Accident médical
265
2English (en)
Medical error
247
3German (de)
Behandlungsfehler
173
4Turkish (tr)
Tıbbi hata
128
5Japanese (ja)
医療事故
116
6Arabic (ar)
خطأ طبي
60
7Chinese (zh)
醫療疏失
53
8Persian (fa)
خطای پزشکی
34
9Russian (ru)
Врачебная ошибка
33
10Korean (ko)
의료 과실
25
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
خطأ طبي
azAzerbaijani
Həkim səhvi
deGerman
Behandlungsfehler
enEnglish
Medical error
faPersian
خطای پزشکی
fiFinnish
Hoitovirhe
frFrench
Accident médical
jaJapanese
医療事故
koKorean
의료 과실
nlDutch
Medische fout
plPolish
Błąd medyczny
ptPortuguese
Erro médico
ruRussian
Врачебная ошибка
srSerbian
Лекарска грешка
trTurkish
Tıbbi hata
ukUkrainian
Лікарська помилка
viVietnamese
Lỗi y tế
zhChinese
醫療疏失

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#83467
04.2015
Global:
#67931
11.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#13986
07.2004
Global:
#18548
06.2016

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Medical error from Wikipedia articles about Wikipedia article, Medical malpractice, Kanye West, Suad Nasr and Paraphimosis. Whereas reading the article about Medical error people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Iatrogenesis, Wikipedia article, Wikipedia article, Ako City Hospital and Kyorin University Chopstick Case.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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