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While in the clinical profession, it is normal to converse to teach, doctors need to keep it short and answer yes or no if they can, when in the courtroom.
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March 1, 2022
Using Candello data, this study examines the characteristics of malpractice claims which miscommunications.
Healthcare Risk Management reports on a large study conducted by Boston Children’s Hospital in which researchers reviewed 498 medical malpractice claims provided by Candello, CRICO’s national medical malpractice collaborative. The work revealed a direct relationship between the quality of patient handoffs and claims.
January 5, 2022
This article, published by the Michigan State Medical Society, provides insight into how CRICO's diagnostic process of care framework, using medical malpractice claims data, can be used to reduce diagnostic errors.
Hiller Zobel, LLB, a retired judge and co-author of an updated book on doctors and the law, discusses with HealthLeaders Media how physicians can best help themselves when medical malpractice is alleged. Zobel’s book, Doctors & the Law, that he co-authors with Stephen N. Rous, MD, was published by CRICO in November 2016.
Judge Zobel says, “The general message to a doctor who’s sued is: Of course, you think the world is ending, but it really isn’t and things are better than you think.”
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Ready T. Listen, Answer the Question, and Shut Up. HealthLeaders Media. April 20, 2017.
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