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The Value of Simulation-based Education to Medical Liability Insurance Providers
Apr 01, 2018
The study highlights how “Data from liability insurers are often more detailed and revealing than those obtained from hospital investigations.” The CRICO Strategies national Comparative Benchmarking System (CBS) database was cited as an example.
Cook DA, Andersen DK, Combes JR, Feldman DL, Sachdeva AK. The value proposition of simulation-based education. ACS Simulation Series. Surgery. 2018 April;163(4):944-949. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2017.11.008
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Effects of Poor Communication in Healthcare
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Exploring the effects of poor communication in health care, this HIPAA Journal article, published December 23, 2023, cites data from CRICO’s med mal database.
Postpartum Malpractice Claims: Can We Understand Preventable Harms and Socioeconomic Factors?
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Candello Member
In a multifactorial study, The Doctors Company (a Candello member organization) investigated postpartum claims to develop clinical recommendations to decrease the risks of postpartum morbidity and mortality.
Assessing the Impact of Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions on Safety Culture with Proactive Risk Assessments
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Hospitals seeking to understand patient safety strengths and vulnerabilities in the context of mergers/acquisitions benefit more from a third-party perspective than from a limited internal process. CRICO’s Risk Assessment Unit has access to a rich body of work to help articulate identified factors and by which to frame improvement recommendations.
How Does Work Environment Relate to Diagnostic Quality? A Prospective, Mixed Methods Study in Primary Care
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CRICO Grants
The aim of this CRICO-funded study was to develop a tool assessing key elements of the diagnostic assessment process and apply it to a series of diagnostic encounters examining clinical notes and the encounters’ recorded transcripts.