CRICO Insights: March 2016

Top 5 Web Links to Increase Your Patient Safety

1. Log in to My CRICO for your claims history and risk profile.

2. Dig into our malpractice data, for benchmarking reports,
research presentations, and client case studies.

3. Explore myriad clinician resources in patient safety.

4. Ensure your practices are best practices with our patient safety education.

5. Write for (or just comment on) our blog; we invite your submissions.

Use our cheat sheet if you’re wondering, “Where did that go?"
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Key Factors in Colorectal Cancer Cases

When clinicians miss a colorectal cancer diagnosis, what is most likely to have gone wrong? Do you have these bases covered? Or are your patients at risk?

Patient Safety Alert: Patient & Visitor
De-escalation

The AMC PSO convened a panel of safety leaders to review recent trends and discuss novel interventions to mitigate the risk for violence in health care settings. Learn more


CASE STUDY

Test Delay Blamed for Woman’s Colon Cancer Death

The patient died two years after seeing her PCP for a five-week history of constipation and rectal bleeding—symptoms that continued over a year and a half before she was diagnosed. How did this happen?

VIDEO PODCAST

Can Access to Doctor Notes Help Patients Find Mistakes, Recall Care Plans

Sigall Bell, MD, and Jan Walker, RN, MBA, discuss the impacts and benefits of using OpenNotes. Watch the conversation


sAVE THE DATE: June 9, 2016

Mind the Gaps

Avoiding the risks of communication failures in patient care

patient safety symposium | Revere Hotel, Boston, MA

Learn what you can do to avoid communication missteps that can lead to patient harm and allegations of medical malpractice. Speakers, agenda, and registration details are coming soon.


Latest News from CRICO

Get all your medmal and patient safety news here.

    Diagnostic Errors Linked to Nearly 800,000 Deaths or Cases of Permanent Disability in U.S.

    News
    CRICO in partnership with Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence, conducted a study that indicates misdiagnosis of disease or other medical conditions leads to hundreds of thousands of deaths and permanent disabilities each year in the U.S.

    In the Wake of a New Report on Diagnostic Errors SIDM Invites Collaboration and Policy Action

    News
    A new report by CRICO and Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence provides the first national estimate of permanent morbidity and mortality resulting from diagnostic errors across all clinical settings. The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) works to raise awareness of the burden of diagnostic error as a major public health issue and calls for collaboration and policy action on the issue.

    Burden of Serious Harms from Diagnostic Error in the USA

    News
    New analysis of national data by a multidisciplinary research team from the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence and CRICO, found that across all clinical settings, an estimated 795,000 Americans die or are permanently disabled by diagnostic error each year.
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