CRICO Insights: January 2018

Top Pages for My CRICO Users in 2017

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Preparing for a Deposition

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Coping with Stress

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What to Expect as a Defendant

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CME Hub

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I’ve Been Sued

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Poor Communication of Orders Leads to Death

A resident’s NPO note didn’t make it to fellow caregivers. Dr. Adam Schaffer makes the connection between this event and medmal big data. What can we learn?

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2017 Year in Review

The Red Sox weren’t the only organization in our neighborhood hitting it out of the park in 2017. Here’s a breakdown of some of CRICO’s key accomplishments in 2017. We did it all for you...

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What to Do After an Adverse Event

CRICO encourages honest and informed communication between clinicians and patients regarding all aspects of medical care, but particularly related to medical error that causes injury. The goal is to maintain trust and support patients...

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ED Stuck on Wrong Diagnosis, Blamed the Patient?

A 26-year-old male presented to the emergency department with burning chest pain. After two more visits within four days for the same complaint, he died at home from acute coronary thrombosis. What went wrong?

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EHR Downtime Guidelines

Love it or hate it, you rely on your EHR. What happens when it’s not there? Are you prepared to go back to paper?

Latest News from CRICO

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    The Safety of Outpatient Health Care

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    Although most care occurs in the outpatient setting, knowledge of outpatient adverse events (AEs) remains limited. This study looks at adverse events in outpatient settings.
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    Utilization of Electronic Health Record Sex and Gender Demographic Fields: A Metadata and Mixed Methods Analysis

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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.
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