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February 16, 2021
Interhospital transfers (IHT) are important yet recognized as high-risk transitions in care. This study was funded by CRICO to help define the best practice principles for IHTs and identify improvement opportunities.
February 12, 2021
CRICO President and CEO Mark E. Reynolds has been named as a board member of the Medical Practice Liability Association.
November 16, 2020
This study, funded by CRICO grants, utilized a deep learning algorithm to identify instances of allergic reactions in the free-text electronic narratives of hospital safety reports.
The Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare magazine highlights the CRICO Strategies 2015 CBS Benchmarking Report on communication failures. The report was the catalyst for a recent Patient Safety Monitor Journal published interview, where patient safety experts weighed in on why nearly one-third of malpractice claims involve a communication failure, leading to significant patient harm.
Dana Siegal, director of patient safety for CRICO Strategies, says although communication errors are not solely to blame for patient harm, they often serve as the catalyst to subsequent missteps. The CBS report, published in January by CRICO Strategies, analyzed 23,000 medical malpractice claims filed between 2009 and 2013 in which patients suffered some degree of harm.
Citation for PSQH's full-text article:
I-PASS and SBAR handoff tools have proven benefits. PSQH. Apr 13, 2016.