Resource presents 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.
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Providers should expect more attention to patient safety protocols as hospitals stop billing—and payers stop paying— for preventable bad clinical outcomes.
A female patient wasn’t screened for colon cancer, despite routine involvement with three physicians.
Growing incidence of malpractice suits from ambulatory settings prompt affiliated hospitals and liability insurers to explore interventions for outpatient care.
More states add “negligent credentialing” to the liability for hospitals and other groups that don’t adequately review a provider’s past.
