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Inform Safer Medical Oncology Practice with Lessons from Medical Malpractice Claims
Mar 01, 2024
This article examines research conducted by a team of clinicians who performed and published a medical oncology malpractice case analysis in the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management. The primary goal of analyzing claims from CRICO’s national Candello database was to identify the association between safety incidents in medical oncology practice and systems failures rather than individual provider remediation, and to inform potential redesign solutions. The findings highlighted the prevalence of known patient safety concerns in medical oncology, prompting several recommendations.
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Doolin J, Tremont H. Inform safer medical oncology practice with lessons from medical malpractice claims. Inside Medical Liability. March 2024.
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An Analysis of Medical Malpractice Claims Against Medical Oncologists from a National Database: Implications for Safer Practice
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CRICO experts collaborated with oncologists from subscriber institutions Lahey Hospital and Medical Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to research and co-author this study that was published in the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management.
Characterizing Malpractice Cases Involving Emergency Department Advanced Practice Providers, Physicians in Training, and Attending Physicians
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s emergency department experts collaborated with CRICO patient safety experts to co-author this study that was published in the Academic Emergency Medicine journal.
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This CRICO co-funded retroactive study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association analyzed the records of patients 18 years of age or older in the Mass General Brigham health system with a first Legal Sex entry (registration requirement) between 2018 and 2022. The study was important because "Sex and gender demographic data are widely viewed as essential to providing culturally responsive gender affirming care and facilitating research and public health interventions."
The Patient Safety Adoption Framework: A Practical Framework to Bridge the Know-Do Gap
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Many patient safety initiatives fail to be adopted and implemented, even when proven effective. This creates the well-recognized know-do gap—which occurs when health care workers know what should be done based on evidence vs. what takes place in practice. To address this issue, CRICO funded the development of a patient safety adoption framework and had it evaluated by leaders in quality and safety. The framework and its findings were published online in the Journal of Patient Safety in April 2023.