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Safer Breast Care, Culling Bad Claims, Pt Safety Research, & more...
Oct 18, 2016
CRICO Insights: October 2016
Five Routes to Safer Breast Care Management
1. | Refer to decision support tools (like this one) to avoid delays in ordering test and referrals. |
2. | Use a checklist to ensure capture of family history updates. |
3. | Get alerts for patient follow-up gaps. |
4. | Flag and track any abnormal findings. |
5. | Share your reasoning with the patient & referral clinicians. |
Navigating Risks in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Our 2016 course for CRICO-insured primary care physicians, Maximizing Skills, Minimizing Risk, will be held on Saturday, November 5. Register now... |
How well does the legal system weed out claims of medical negligence that have no merit? Are so-called “frivolous claims” common? David Studdert found out... |
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Much of our day-to-day work centers on how things can and do go horribly wrong in the health care setting. But in this case, it was a display of basic humanity by this exemplary clinical team that made all the difference. The impact of compassion... |
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Breast Lump Wrongly Followed With Screening Test A year after noticing a lump and having a mammogram, the patient was diagnosed with a stage IV, invasive, ductile breast cancer. What went wrong? |
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Research Sprouts from Harvard Medmal Data Recipients of CRICO’s patient safety grants gathered to share their successes and lessons and to spur inspiration across our community. Hear from the researchers... |
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