Preventing and Responding to Medical Errors

CME Certificate Fee: $25.00 per credit (hour)

AMA/PRA Cat. 1 Credit
2.00 credit(s) / hour(s)

Estimated time to complete this activity:
2.00 hours.

Meets Special CME Requirements in: Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas Learn More >>

This course will help you:

	Improve how you respond to prevention of medical errors issues in your clinical practice.
	Recognize how root causes and other factors contribute to errors and medical adverse events
	Understand the difference between active and latent causes of medical adverse events
	Manage your ethical obligation to promptly and openly disclose a medical error to a patient and their family
	Develop ongoing patient safety improvement efforts based on national standards and guidelines

Preventing and Responding to Medical Errors

AMA/PRA Cat. 1 Credit: 2.00 credit(s) / hour(s)

Current Approval Period: March 1, 2010 - February 28, 2012

VLH Release Date: February 29, 2008

Most Recent Edit by Author: March 1, 2010

Financial Support Received: None

Accreditation

The Office of Continuing Education, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Office of Continuing Education, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This course was initially released on The VLH on 02-29-08. The term of approval for this course is two years from the date of last review, 03-01-10.

Preventing and Responding to Medical Errors

About the Author and Editor

Author

Leslie W. Hall, MD, FACP is an Associate Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Since 2008, he has served as the Chief Medical Officer for University of Missouri Health Care and as the Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs in the MU School of Medicine. He previously directed University of Missouri Health Care's Office of Clinical Effectiveness. He has led numerous quality improvement teams, and serves as the Director of the Program for Clinical Quality Improvement in the Center for Health Care Quality.

Dr. Hall has developed several curricular offerings in the areas of medical errors prevention, quality improvement, patient safety and teamwork in health care. From 2005 to 2008, he served as one of two national physician advisors for Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (a Robert Wood Johnson Initiative). His research interests include analysis of the effectiveness of strategies to improve patient safety within hospitals and investigation of outcomes of quality improvement and patient safety education. Dr. Hall's clinical work is as an internal medicine hospitalist.

Disclosure: Dr. Hall states that he does not have any financial arrangements that could constitute a conflict of interest.

Editor

John Harris Jr., MD, MBA is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the College of Medicine of the University of Arizona. He is the President of Medical Directions, Inc. Dr. Harris has served as the Principal Investigator on multiple NIH-funded studies of online CME. He is the Senior Editor of The Virtual Lecture Hall's online medical errors CME programs and the author of a number of professional papers dealing with online CME.

Disclosure: Dr. Harris states that he does not have any financial arrangements that could constitute a conflict of interest.

Preventing and Responding to Medical Errors

Ratings (1989 responses)


How would you rate this program overall? Average Rating: 4.63/5.00

How well were the learning objectives of this program met? Average Rating: 4.69/5.00

How relevant was the information in this program to your clinical practice? Average Rating: 4.41/5.00

Likelihood you will make a change in practice behavior based on your participation in this activity. Average Rating: 4.00/5.00

User Comments


by Hidden \| Sep 6, 2010 The format of each page required shifting the page side to side as the lines exceeded the width of my laptop(Toshiba). Don't know if this was a problem with my computer or inherent in your system. If your program could be formatted differently it would be more convenient.

by Frankie Ann Holmes \| May 8, 2010 Carefully thought out. VERY realistic scenarios. I learned alot. This "codified" my gut feelings and seeing the references immediately was terrific. I'd also suggest Gawande's recent book: "The Checklist Manifesto" as another example of one the key ideas communicated here: we need checklists to help us to be as safe and effective as possible in situations of high complexity...which is what medicine is!

by James McClurg \| Apr 12, 2010 It was quite an eye opener.

by Hidden \| Jan 20, 2010 The case-based organization makes this course very applicable to our daily practice and is very effective in communicating the educational goals.

by Mitchell Goldstein \| Jan 16, 2010 I found the information to be a unique in it's organization and completeness. The references were useful and gave me more confidence in accepting the recommendations and conclusions.

by Una O'Callaghan \| Jan 14, 2010 Enjoyed it - might be useful to give ideas about encouraging incident reporting especially across the team as in a primary care setting non clinical staff including receptionists and coders if allowed and encouraged may play an important role, splitting event reporting into clinical eg prescribing error delay in diagnosis, non clinical eg breach of confidentiality and other eg patient falls in the building children running unsupervised fires power cuts etc may encourage all team members to take part

Preventing and Responding to Medical Errors

This course meets general AMA Category 1 CME requirements in states that have a CME requirement.

Based on information from state licensing authorities, this program meets special CME requirements in these states:

	Connecticut Risk Management
	Florida Medical Errors Prevention This course addresses the five most misdiagnosed conditions during the previous biennium, as well as root cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety, as required by the Florida Board of Medicine.
	Massachusetts Risk Management
	Nevada Ethics
	Pennsylvania Risk Management / Patient Safety
	Rhode Island Other Regulatory Requirements
	Texas Ethics / Professional Responsibility

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Preventing and Responding to Medical Errors

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