Communication
Communication failures are a leading contributing factor in medmal cases. Our patient safety resources, informed by experts from across the Harvard medical community, help reduce your risk of being sued through case studies, clinical guidelines, podcasts, and more.
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Can Your Patient Understand Your Instructions?

Related To: Communication,  Diagnosis,  Documentation,  Emergency Medicine,  General Medicine,  Informed Consent,  Nursing,  Obstetrics,  Surgery

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Failed Physician-Nurse Communication

Related To: Communication,  Documentation,  Nursing,  Other Specialities

Malpractice Risks in Communication Failures

This Candello Report looks at 7,149 cases in which facts, figures, or findings got lost between the individuals who had that information and those who needed it—across the spectrum of health care services and settings.

Communication Failures Report
Comm Failures

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Informed Consent Basics

Related To: Ambulatory,  Communication,  Documentation,  Emergency Medicine,  General Medicine,  Informed Consent,  Nursing,  Obstetrics,  Surgery

Our Case Studies

CRICO's case studies educate you on what can go wrong in clinical settings and how you can prevent similar issues.
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CRICO Grant Spotlight: A Verbal Electronic Surgical Safety Checklist for the Intensive Care Unit

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This CRICO grant-funded project showed that an electronic checklist could accurately verbalize information needed for a SICU time-out and could deliver objective information from the EHR at the point of care.
surgeons in OR checking a computer screen
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    CRICO Grant Spotlight: Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Among Women 40–49 in Primary Care

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    Through a CRICO grant-funded project, Mara Schonberg, MD, MPH, sought to learn if providing women age 40-49 with information about their risk of breast cancer is useful to them when deciding on breast cancer screening and prevention interventions. Participants completed a pre-test, received their personalized breast cancer risk report, saw their primary care clinician, and completed a post-test.
    doctor and patient in virtual appointment

    Advisory: Detecting and Reporting Patient Safety Risks in Virtual Care Delivery

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    On September 23, 2021, the Academic Medical Center Patient Safety Organization (AMC PSO), in association with the Alliance for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (AQIPS), hosted the first National Safe Table for PSOs on the topic of detecting and reporting patient safety risks associated with virtual care delivery.
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