What does the medical term adverse impact mean?

Answer 1

Adverse impact means negative or undesired impact or results. For example, when banks and mortgage brokers approved home buyers for loans who were at high risk for repaying the loans, it had an adverse impact on the economy, lending industry, and buyers as it caused the amount of foreclosures to sky rocket when the economy went into recession.

Answer 2

"Adverse impact" has the same meaining in medical and lay language; it emans "unfavorable influence.' For instance the invention of digital cameras had an advise impact on sales of film.