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New Study Finds Outpatient Adverse Events Common, Often Preventable

An Interview with the Authors of the Safe Care Study

Some top-line conclusions are that outpatient harm was relatively common and often serious, with a call to action for intervention in outpatient errors. Drs. David Levine and David Bates of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School are joined by their co-author and CRICO Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Luke Sato, who leads our discussion.

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6 Resources for Patient Safety

Whether you need a quick tip or want to take a deep dive, we have included the 6 patient safety resources you need to provide the safest possible care. Our clinical experts ground their insights in our decades of medical malpractice data and their experience caring for patients.

What’s My Risk? Leveraging the power of Candello (our national medmal database), CRICO has compiled a library to help clinicians identify specialty-related risks.

Are You Safe? CRICO’s Are You Safe? case studies are designed to help all members of a multidisciplinary team reduce the risk of patient harm in the course of diagnosis and treatment.

Structured Patient Handoffs
Can Help Avoid Malpractice Cases Using Candello data, researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have demonstrated a link between patient handoff failures and malpractice cases.

Copy and Paste in the Medical Record: A Top EHR Danger
When it comes to medical notes in patient charts, copying and pasting carries risks of confusion, patient harm, and liability for providers.

Request a Risk Assessment
We have created a Risk Assessment Unit to keep up with requests related to changes in healthcare delivery models and network expansions.

Patient Safety Library
Delve into our library of patient safety topics and clinical specialties.

Lack of Follow-up Leads to Renal Cell Cancer Diagnosis Delay and Death

Case Study

A patient’s delayed follow-up on a right kidney mass was complicated by the provider’s incomplete documentation of patient education about findings and recommendations for additional testing.



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