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Summary: For more than 20 years, CRICO has analyzed claims and suits from the Harvard medical community to understand causes of error. We have learned that 67% of claims fall into four high risk areas: Diagnosis, Obstetrics, Surgery and Medication.
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Podcasts:
A typical urgent care decision needed a simple re-thinking in this fatal PE case.
A simple surgery leads to pain and legal action after a stent is left behind and forgotten for a year.
A practice struggled to satisfy the family of a boy after two years of primary care and a misunderstanding
OB case: communication between the primary provider and a phone consultant needed more clarity and changes in the patient's status needed a stronger response.
A patient fell in the radiology department, with resulting serious head injury. A hospitalist shares insights into prevention.
ICU Feeding Tubes
Medical malpractice cases are sometimes lost when a defendant clinician does badly at trial or during the deposition.
Medical malpractice cases are sometimes lost when a defendant clinician does badly at trial or during the deposition.
Failure to supervise and confirm orders led to a preventable death and a search for system-level changes to how NPOs are communicated.
Failure to supervise and confirm orders led to a preventable death and a search for system-level changes to how NPOs are communicated.
When a patient returns over and over again with the same symptom complex, the providers really need to start to think, "am I missing something?"
When a patient returns over and over again with the same symptom complex, the providers really need to start to think, “am I missing something?”
Fixated on flu symptoms, the nurse missed available information that indicated the patient should have been brought to urgent care to prevent an unnecessary tragedy.
Fixated on flu symptoms, the nurse missed available information that indicated the patient should have been brought to urgent care to prevent an unnecessary tragedy.
HPsychiatric patient kills self with opioid prescribed by an internist for restless leg syndrome.
