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‘Off-hours’ Care Is Riskier, Patient Receives Wrong Blood Type, and More

Jul 19, 2023

By 

Wallinda Hutson, Senior Information Resources Librarian, 

Missy Padoll, Marketing and Communications Director

Protecting Providers. Promoting Safety.

You may know that CRICO provides your medmal insurance program, but we also have a wide array of patient safety resources that can help you provide safer care for yourself and for your patients.

  1. Based on real-life medmal claims, subject matter experts offer a patient safety analysis and key lessons
  2. Discover what our data reveal about risks in your specialty—and find steps to mitigate them
  3. Extensive insights by specialty and safety concern
  4. Experts discuss malpractice cases, patient safety, and emerging issues
  5. Evidence-based decision support tools from Harvard experts to help avoid high-severity malpractice risks

Explore even more patient safety resources



First Published – July 19, 2023
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Two case studies in the Harvard system illustrate how different defendant responses to allegations of discrimination can impact the outcome and the need to settle.


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Patient Safety and ‘Off-hours’ Clinical Care

Our analysis showed that malpractice claims in which off-hours care was a contributing factor were significantly more likely to close with a payment being made to the claimant.

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Related To: Ambulatory,  General Medicine

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