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Can Teamwork Enhance Patient Safety?

Patient safety depends on teamwork. Every day, teams of medical professionals make important decisions and actions regarding diverse and complicated treatments that affect the lives and well being of patients.

An Essential Tool for Patient Safety

One of the efforts CRICO has fully embraced is combining simulation-based training and team training to improve skills and reduce preventable errors.

Are Best Practices a Good Idea?

“Best practices” are a staple of health care organizations, where the altruistic sharing of good ideas and their operating instructions is accepted behavior. But, to date, the designation of “best” has been mostly unfettered by definitions or criteria.

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CRICO Clinical Guidelines Not just for CRICO institutions

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CRICO Clinical Guidelines

In conjunction with clinical experts from Harvard-affiliated health care organizations, CRICO develops and maintains evidence-based decision support tools for physicians and nurses whose patient encounters align with high-severity malpractice risks. These guidelines, algorithms, and other tools are designed and periodically updated to help clinicians identify risk prone steps in specific diagnostic or treatment processes, and suggest protocols.
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Documentation Dos and Don’ts If it wasn’t documented…

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Documentation Dos and Don’ts

September 15, 2002

Current, complete records which assist diagnosis and treatment, and which communicate pertinent information to other caregivers also provide excellent records for risk management purposes. Missing, incomplete, or illegible documentation can seriously impede patient care and the defense of a malpractice claim, even when the care was appropriate.
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Malpractice Risks in Obstetrics Everyone expects a perfect outcome

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Malpractice Risks in Obstetrics

January 1, 2010

Obstetrics leaders who only implement risk reduction initiatives in hindsight—or based on a single event—may be misinformed and misdirected. CRICO’s study of more than 800 obstetrics-related malpractice cases offers an opportunity to proactively identify unseen risk factors and sharpen the focus for patient safety efforts.
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Disparities Solutions Center at MGH New Tools Help Improve Patient Safety in those with Limited English.

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Disparities Solutions Center at MGH

March 14, 2013

The Disparities Solutions Center at MGH and Abt Associates, Inc. in Cambridge, MA, were awarded a four year contract by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to develop tools to reduce medical errors and improve care for limited English proficiency (LEP) patients in hospitals.
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Clinician Resources

Can Teamwork Enhance Patient Safety?

An Essential Tool for Patient Safety

Are Best Practices a Good Idea?

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CRICO Clinical Guidelines

Documentation Dos and Don’ts

Malpractice Risks in Obstetrics

Disparities Solutions Center at MGH