Resource

Resource is an audio-CD publication presenting interviews with experts in patient safety and risk management, case abstracts and legal reports. Listen in your car, on your stereo, or at your computer for updates and CME credits. It is produced bi-monthly by CRICO/RMF as a free service to the CRICO-insured and available by subscription.

March 2007 Issue

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Adding Structure for Safer Hand-offs

New research underscores the need, effectiveness of formalizing sign-out and discharge summary processes.

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Case Study: Repeat ED Visits, Delayed Diagnosis, Lost Ovary

A case where a sign-out checklist or documentation of an order may have prevented the patient’s poor outcome.

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Carrots, Sticks from Liability Insurers

How progressive malpractice carriers seek to spread the adoption of best practices to prevent medical harm to patients.

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Legal Report: Follow Up Falls on MDs

Physician responsibility when patients don’t keep appointments or test results don’t come back.

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