News
Breakdowns in the Initial Patient-Provider Encounter Among Ischemic Stroke
Jul 11, 2019
Researchers from Montefiore Medical Center worked with CRICO Strategies researchers to leverage data from the CRICO Strategies national Comparative Benchmarking System (CBS). They analyzed medical malpractice claims from 2006 to 2016 involving ischemic stroke patients of which a total of 478 claims met inclusion criteria. The in-depth coding of the CBS database enabled researchers to identify the most frequent process breakdowns of this dataset. Results indicate that the most frequent breakdown occurred in the initial patient-provider encounter. With this information, organizations can implement targeted interventions that focus on the initial diagnostic encounter, particularly for ischemic stroke patients with atypicial symptoms.
Citation for the Full-text Article
Liberman AL, Skillings J, Greenberg P, Neman-Toker DE, Siegal D. Breakdowns in the initial patient-provider encounter are a frequent source of diagnostic error among ischemic stroke cases included in a large medical malpractice claims database. Diagnosis. July 2019. (Published online July 11, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1515/dx-2019-0031
Related Article
Serious misdiagnosis-related harms in malpractice claims-vascular events infections and cancersLatest News from CRICO
Hospitals are Looking for the Killer Amazon Alexa App
Integrating Research Quality Improvement and Medical Education for Better Handoffs and Safer Care Disseminating Adapting and Implementing the I-PASS Program
privately funded dissemination and implementation projects were carried out following the publication of the initial I-PASS study, which CRICO supported early on.
Non-technical Skills of Surgeons and Anaesthetists In Simulated Operating Theatre Crises
anaesthetist non-technical skills on the time it takes to resolve a crisis during simulation-based operative team training that was funded by a CRICO initiative.