ascertainment error | error of observation

accidental overdose of drug, wrong drug given or taken in error, and drug taken inadvertently accidents in the use of drugs, medicaments and biological substances in medical and surgical procedures (self-inflicted) poisoning, when not specified whether accidental or with intent to harm. Follow legal rulings when available (see note at Y10-Y34).

SISIP Allotment Observation for Error Identification and Corrective Action

Failure in dosage during surgical and medical care

overdose of these substances wrong substance given or taken in error

standard error

error of estimation | sampling error

4. Considers it noteworthy in this context, that the chapter on rural development, environment, fisheries and health appears with the second highest error rate in the report of the Court of Auditors for 2013 with 6,7 %, against 4,7 % on average; emphasises that this error rate accounts for all policy areas encompassed in the chapter; considers it noteworthy that most of the errors can be attributed to disregard for eligibility requirements, in particular with regard to agri-environment commitments; notes that there are different views between the Court of Auditors and the Commission with regard to the way in which errors should be cal ...[+++]culated; notes that the Commission considers that the Court of Auditors' annual representative error rate should be seen in the context of the multiannual character of net financial corrections and recoveries;

Mr. Neufeld also concluded that the rate of error sustained in the 2011 election would not " be even remotely acceptable to an average Canadian" .

14. Welcomes the fact that the Court of Auditors found, in its specific assessment of the administrative and other expenditure as a whole, that the testing of transactions indicates that the most likely error present in the population is nil and that the supervisory and control systems of the administrative expenditure were assessed as effective; welcomes, furthermore, the fact that the audit by the Court of Auditors indicates that the payments in 2012 of accepted expenditure were not affected by a material level of error; notes that the audit involved an examination of a sample of 151 payment transactions - 91 payments of salaries, pe ...[+++]nsions and related allowances and 60 payments on contracts relating to buildings and other expenditure - against 56 payments audited in 2011;

188. Supports the recommendations and good practices to reduce errors by addressing gold-plating as suggested in the Parliament's study on ‘Gold-Plating in the EAFRD: To what extent do national rules unnecessarily add to complexity and, as a result, increase the risk of errors?’; notes that there are forms of gold-plating where benefits outweigh the costs and where regulation is justified ('good' gold-plating practices), whereas numerous other practices of gold-plating appear to be disproportionate and costs outweigh the benefits ('bad' gold-plating practices); demands that the latter gold-plating forms be addressed;