Getting SMART about Harassment
Whether you’re a target or a bystander, this problem is likely to affect you. In a new program at Massachusetts General Hospital, surgical residents are learning good ways to respond to bad behavior.
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CRICO-funded NEJM Study, Top Patient Safety Articles of 2022, and Resources for after an Adverse Event
Jan 15, 2023
Top Patient Safety Interests in 2022
Here are the items that piqued our readers’ interest most in the past year.
- OB Guidelines: Assessment and Monitoring in Labor and Delivery
- Mandatory Patient-accessible Clinical Notes: Cures Act Overview
- Patient Documentation: Dos and Don'ts for Doctors and Nurses
- OR Team Training Collaborative: Closed-loop Communication
- Case Study: 10-fold Dose Error Transferred with Patient, Death Results
- Statistics: Nursing Malpractice Cases and Lawsuits
- Communication Strategies: Informed Consent Basics
NEJM SafeCare Study
Press Releases
Sponsor of the Newly Published SafeCare Study Shares Key Findings and Recommendations
Related To: Patient Safety Awareness
If you experience an adverse event in your practice, CRICO has an array of resources to help.
After an Adverse Event
What Not to Do: Telehealth Lessons Learned—Managing the Unexpected
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Ambulatory Safety Nets, ED Boarding, and Promoting Safety in Understaffed Departments
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Insights April 2023
Healing the Healer Documentary, Medical Malpractice Case Study, and EPL Insights
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Insights August 2022. Healing the Healer Documentary, Medical Malpractice Case Study, and EPL Insights
‘Off-hours’ Care Is Riskier, Patient Receives Wrong Blood Type, and More
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Insights July 2023
How Does Work Environment Relate to Diagnostic Quality? A Prospective, Mixed Methods Study in Primary Care
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The aim of this CRICO-funded study was to develop a tool assessing key elements of the diagnostic assessment process and apply it to a series of diagnostic encounters examining clinical notes and encounters' recorded transcripts.
Utilization of Electronic Health Record Sex and Gender Demographic Fields: A Metadata and Mixed Methods Analysis
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CRICO Grants
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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CRICO Grants
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.
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.