(exposure) An interaction between entities that provides opportunity for transmission of a physical, chemical, or biological agent from an exposure source entity to an exposure target entity. Examples:The following examples are provided to indicate what interactions are considered exposures rather than other types of Acts: * A patient accidentally receives three times the recommended dose of their medication due to a dosing error. * This is a substance administration. Public health and/or safety authorities may also be interested in documenting this with an associated exposure. * A patient accidentally is dispensed an incorrect medicine (e.g., clomiphene instead of clomipramine). They have taken several doses before the mistake is detected. They are therefore "exposed" to a medicine that there was no therapeutic indication for them to receive. * There are several substance administrations in this example. Public health and/or safety authorities may also be interested in documenting this with associated exposures. * In a busy medical ward, a patient is receiving chemotherapy for a lymphoma. Unfortunately, the IV infusion bag containing the medicine splits, spraying cytotoxic medication over the patient being treated and the patient in the adjacent bed. * There are three substance administrations in this example. The first is the intended one (IV infusion) with its associated...

(exposure) Contact between an agent and a target. A state of contact or close proximity to a medicinal product, chemical, pathogen, radioisotope or other substance. NOTE: Types of exposure may be described by many qualifiers (e.g., local, systemic, acute, chronic, cumulative, environmental, population, individual, gestational, or occupational.) See also exposure (individual), intervention, extent of exposure.

(exposure) Mean value of X-Ray Current Time product.

(exposure) The act of subjecting someone or something to an influencing experience.