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Topics in Risk Management 2
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Get the CME credits you need as you assess your knowledge and refine your skills!
Essential topics and in-depth commentary you’ll hear covered in Topics in Risk Management 2...
Making a Medical Disclosure and an Apology
Unanticipated outcomes, including harmful errors and adverse events, caused by medical care must be disclosed to the patient or family member. But are you prepared to do this? This essential presentation is led by noted attorneys to help you understand the essential steps when making a medical disclosure. Learn when to disclose and when not to and the who, what, when, and where for the disclosure discussion.
Patient Privacy & HIPAA Concerns
This expert discussion covers the essential steps to safeguard office records to ensure privacy, handling top complaints by patients for violating their privacy, guidelines for leaving messages, and strict requirements for
electronic communication.
Ensuring Patient Safety
National Patient Safety goals for inpatient and outpatient settings, including changes for 2008, are highlighted in this presentation. Understanding the goals for you and the entire health care team will help prevent a medical error both in your office and in hospital situations.
Preparing for a Deposition
The physician needs to understand that a deposition is, in fact, a trial testimony and can be used in court. Experts will discuss how a deposition is used, preparing for a deposition, key questions to be wary of, and physician rights when correcting the written transcript of a deposition.
Let the experts guide you: With your audio tools, you receive printed abstracts on pocket-size QuickFlash cards that reinforce the recorded material. The cards feature take-home pearls with citation and reprint information, and can be used as quick preview or review of the audio.
Convenient, economical CME: A quick, inexpensive CME program that gives you a convenient alternative to conferences and seminars. Topics in Risk Management 2 spans a variety of subjects you need to earn a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits in risk management and patient safety. And its self-instructional format allows you to earn credits as your time permits.
Bonus – Mock Depositions: 90 minutes of audio presentations including coaching from medical malpractice experts and a plaintiff attorney. Learn from
discussions involving actual depositions to understand key components faced when called for a deposition.
Statement of Need: This activity was developed in 2005 in response to the physicians' need to keep abreast of medical risk management and patient safety.
Dr. Donald Deye, Medical Director, Oakstone Medical Publishing, and other experts surveyed the opinions of colleagues through one-to-one conversations with physicians and agreed on the following:
- Physicians must develop and maintain skills for informed consent and medical disclosures
- The medical journals are a fertile source of new information which, however, is too diverse and voluminous to be effectively used by most busy clinicians
- Physicians need a timesaving way tomore effectively use the peer-reviewed reports that appear in the medical journals
- The use of a literature service is a practical source of educational medicine
Intended Audience: Physicians interested in risk management, patient privacy issues, and patient safety.
Special Prerequisites for Participants: There are no prerequisites for participants.
Educational Objectives: At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Discuss the role of communication in the health care team to ensure medical disclosure
- Identify pathways for improving medical disclosure
- List steps for the health care team to prevent medical errors
- Summarize essential steps to safeguard office records to ensure patient privacy
- List seven components for the National Patient Safety Goals
- Evaluate current office processes for adherence to patient privacy guidelines
- Cite examples for how communication within the health care team can lead to
prevention of medical errors
- Name common abbreviations that can lead to medical errors
- Understand the importance and use of a deposition
- Evaluate ways the physician-attorney team should prepare for a deposition
- Critique examples from medical depositions to understand the importance of preparation
Accreditation Statement: Oakstone Medical Publishing is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Policy on Faculty and Provider Disclosure: It is the policy of Oakstone Medical Publishing that the faculty and provider disclose real or apparent conflict of interest relating to the topics of this educational activity, and also disclose discussions of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their
presentation(s). Detailed disclosure will bemade in the course handout materials.
Credit Designation Statement: Oakstone Medical Publishing designates this educational activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.
Estimated Time to Complete: 12 hours.
Statement of Responsibility: Oakstone Medical Publishing takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity.
Disclaimer Statement: The opinions and recommendations expressed by faculty and other experts whose input is included in this program are their own. This enduring material is produced for educational purposes only. Use of Oakstone Medical Publishing name implies review of educational format design and approach. Please review the complete prescribing information of specific drugs or combination of drugs, including indications, contraindications, warnings and
adverse effects
before administering pharmacologic therapy
to patients.
Date of Release: August 2007 Expiration Date: July 31, 2010
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