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Challenging Times? We Have Your Back...5 Ways CRICO
Supports Physicians

CRICO delivers comprehensive support to our insured physicians, combining top-tier medical liability insurance, legal defense, and risk prevention services. Our resources, grounded in evidence-based data from our national Candello database, help manage both ongoing and emerging medical malpractice risks.

Here are 5 ways CRICO supports physician subscribers:

Claims History & Proof of Insurance: Securely access insurance documents, including claims history, proof of insurance, and waivers, via our physician portal.
Continuing Medical Education: Keep up-to-date with accredited online courses and publications offering practical, evidence-based patient safety tips.
Defendant Support (MD Portal): Confidential help and resources for those involved in malpractice claims/suits.
Medical Malpractice Data: Use advanced analytics to spot trends and guide risk reduction strategies.
Risk Assessments: Benefit from thorough practice reviews and safety assessments to help identify and mitigate risks.

Provider-Patient Communication Failures

Strategies for Patient Safety

Clear, effective communication between clinicians and patients or families is foundational to safe care. Candello data continue to show, however, that communication failures remain a persistent and growing source of patient safety risk. New benchmarking data suggest that communication between providers and patients or families is under increasing strain, and the consequences are both clinical and financial.

Incidental Does Not Mean Insignificant

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Ordering providers were not informed of an incidental finding on a chest computer tomography (CT) scan, resulting in a delayed lung cancer diagnosis that ultimately metastasized and caused the patient’s death.

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