Insight CME

• Insight offers actionable data, expertise, and personal physician perspectives on areas of risk. Each issue provides thematic insight into a common area of patient safety, the medical malpractice claims experience, and loss prevention strategies. The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine endorsed Insight for 0.5 Category 1 credits for reading each issue. Track these credits as you track Category 2 credits.

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• Patient Safety Pods Listen to the latest in patient safety and malpractice news
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  Patient Safety Pods

  

  Case studies and interviews are aligned with clinical specialties and high risk areas identified in the Harvard medical system.

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• CRICO Grant Spotlight: Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Among Women 40–49 in Primary Care CRICO grant-funded project uses survey responses to create an individualized two-page risk report to study the impact on breast cancer screening and prevention for women in their 40s.
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  CRICO Grant Spotlight: Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Among Women 40–49 in Primary Care

  

  June 10, 2022

  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.

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• When Virtual Isn’t Good Enough, And Patients Refuse to Come In A new safety advisory about how to respond when patients decline recommendations around virtual care.
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  When Virtual Isn’t Good Enough, And Patients Refuse to Come In

  

  May 19, 2022

  Find out how to respond when patients decline recommendations around virtual care. The AMC PSO patient safety alert, called Informed Patient Refusal in Virtual Care, includes a review of likely malpractice allegations and contributing factors. Safety Net interviews one of the co-authors, Dr. Adrienne Allen, Senior Director of Quality, Safety and Sustainability at North Shore Physicians Group Mass General Brigham Salem.

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• Cardiac Event Mismanaged in ED An otherwise healthy 50-year-old woman presented to the Emergency Department with atypical chest pain.
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  Cardiac Event Mismanaged in ED

  

  April 13, 2022

  An otherwise healthy 50-year-old woman presented to the Emergency Department with atypical chest pain. Discharge and death the next morning followed.

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