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• CRICO OB Patient Safety Program Open to all CRICO-insured obstetricians (attendings and residents).
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  CRICO OB Patient Safety Program

  March 30, 2012

  FOR OBSTETRICIANS: this voluntary program entitles CRICO-insured providers to remain in a lower premium underwriting specialty category for each year in which they complete specific risk reduction activities.

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• OB Simulator Cuts Harvard Medmal Premium Simulation based on malpractice cases
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  OB Simulator Cuts Harvard Medmal Premium

  

  Tom A. Augello, CRICO

  February 1, 2004

  We've compiled the medical incidents and turned them into simulation scenarios. So, it gives the providers a very realistic setting to practice in. The simulator really helps to develop teamwork and refine the reaction when there's a need to intervene.

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• Standards for Residents Same as Senior Physicians Patients expect same outcome
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  Standards for Residents Same as Senior Physicians

  

  Tom A. Augello, CRICO

  April 1, 2000

  A number of important legal rulings have held that attendings are not responsible for the acts of other health care professionals. But they must assign tasks appropriate to the individual's range of capabilities and provide adequate supervision. Where a resident is permitted to perform a procedure or oversee a course of treatment, these cases show that the patient and the courts will expect that the resident is at a level of training and experience to adequately do so.

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• Three Typical Claims in Shoulder Dystocia Lawsuits Most commonly claimed deviations from the standard of care
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  Three Typical Claims in Shoulder Dystocia Lawsuits

  Henry Lerner, MD, Newton-Wellesley Hospital

  September 1, 2007

  It is worthwhile to examine the three types of claims most commonly made in shoulder dystocia lawsuits, how they are “packaged” by plaintiffs’ attorneys, and what might make such claims valid or fallacious. Understanding this may help physicians (and their defense teams) determine when a plaintiff’s claim has validity—and should be settled expeditiously—and when such claims are not valid. Such understanding will also lead to the best approaches for countering nonvalid claims.

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