EHR Issue or Unmet Standard of Care?

Case Study

A patient with known antibiotic allergies received a contraindicated medication prior to the procedure. Once discharged home, the patient developed a significant rash that required re-admission.



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10 Ways to Earn Your CME & Risk Management Credits

As an ACCME accredited provider, CRICO offers several options to help you meet your CME and risk management requirements. In addition to our accredited online CME courses, you can earn credit by listening to bundled podcasts and readings featuring CRICO's patient safety and claims defense experts, along with clinical leaders from across the Harvard medical community.

Listed are our current online courses and CME publication bundles. These enduring materials are designed to help you better understand your medical liability and learn ways to reduce your risk. 

Online CME Credit Courses and Bundles:

  1. Medicine MedMal Cases: Documentation & Defensibility
  2. Delayed or Missed Prostate Cancer
  3. Use Risk Assessments to Create a Patient Safety Roadmap
  4. Navigating Virtual Care
  5. Nursing Practice & Patient Safety
  6. Cyber Security
  7. Lost Specimens
  8. Copy & Paste Risks
  9. Perioperative Fire Safety
  10. CME Podcast Bundles

Make sure to bookmark our Continuing Medical Education web page to stay up to date on our CME offerings. Also, read our CME FAQs.

 

Strengthening Communication During the Birthing Process

Strategies for Patient Safety

Clear and timely communication among providers is critical to reducing the risk of adverse events and supporting patient-centered care, particularly during child labor and delivery. To address the MPL challenges associated with inadequate patient-to-provider communication, we explored TeamBirth, designed by Ariadne Labs.

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Strategies for Patient Safety

MedMal Insider

Real Malpractice Cases from the Harvard Medical Community.
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About the series

Even in the safest healthcare setting, things can go wrong. For more than 40 years, CRICO has analyzed MPL cases from the Harvard medical community. Join our experts as they unpack what occurred and the lessons learned for safer patient care from the causes of these errors.

 New CME Opportunity: Documentation & Defensibility 

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Candello Summit 2025 BMR Live Webinar

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