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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.
A quality improvement project to improve rheumatoid arthritis management in clinical practice was supported by CRICO funds. The aim of the research was to understand the variability in prescribing practices of rheumatologists and reducing this variability if and when appropriate.
This initiative, conducted at the Arthritis Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, had three distinct but related steps:
Citation for the Full-text Article
Dave AJ, Tory HO, Awosogba JA, Coblyn JS, Bermas B, Solomon DH, Desai SP. A quality improvement approach to rheumatoid Arthritis management with biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: assessing variability in a treatment pathway. J Clin Rheumatol. 2017 Jan;23(1):66-69. doi: 10.1097/RHU.0000000000000474.