Insight Library

2021

Protecting Providers: support, data & expertise
full issue: pages or pdf

• Clinicians are Far from Alone During a Lawsuit
• Physician’s Take Chronology of a Malpractice Case
• Documentation Best Practices
• Getting Clinicians in Lawsuits to Care for Themselves is Hard
• Case Study: Failure to Connect the Dots During Multiple Visits
• In Defense of the Jury System
• Understanding the Standard of Care

2014

Insight into Risks of Ambulatory Care full issue: pages or pdf

• Insight The Future of Primary Care
• Does Following a Clinical Guideline Help Later in Court?
• Ahead of Her Time in Ambulatory Patient Safety
• When a Procedure is Anything But Routine
• Case Study: Failure to Connect the Dots During Multiple Visits
• Malpractice Claims Analysis Confirms Risks in EHRs
• Tips When Using EHRs
• Ambulatory Risk Managers Grant Program
• Managing Risk in the Referral Lifecycle

2013

Summer

Insight into Claims full issue: pages or PDF

• Physician’s Take: Chronology of a Malpractice Case
• Our Approach to Disclosure of Medical Error and Compensation
• In Defense of the Jury System
• Accuracy at Issue in New MA Disclosure Law
• Where Are You When Things Go Wrong?
• Helping Providers Help Themselves
• Write it Right
• Meet your Defense Team
• Our Juries: Partners in Justice

Note: In 2021, CRICO published
a newer publication based on this document.

2012

Insight into Communication Challenges PDF

• Communication Factors in Malpractice Cases
• Can We Talk? Physicians Get Personal with Patients
• MDs Share Secrets for Connecting with Patients
• Chronology of Malpractice Case
• Curbside Consults: An Attorney’s Take
• Cancer, Death After Mistakenly Told Biopsy Normal
• Wanda Gonzalez, MD
• Are You Complicating Your Consults?

2011

Spring                

MD and the Government Want Better EMR: Can CRICO Help?

• Better EMR: Can CRICO Help?
• Making EMRs Safer for Patients and Provider
• Three Risks to Avoid in Health IT
• Medication Error Proves Fatal

2010

Winter                

The Burden of Success — in Real Life and on Television

• The Burden of Success—in Real Life and on Television
• Healing the Healer
• Where's the Risk?
• Long Surgery, Consent Faulted in Blindness
  (previously published in 2006)

Spring

Helping Providers Protect Themselves

• Helping Providers Protect Themselves
• Medical Perspectives: Guidelines
• Legal Perspective: Guidelines
• Cancer Metastasizes Despite Surveillance

2009

Winter                

Ambulance Diversion Policy & Loss of Chance

• The Impact of Ambulance Diversion Policies on ED Overcrowding
• Delayed Diagnosis and the Patients Loss of Chance of Survival
• Loss of Chance and Proportionality Issues Related to Cancer
• ED Boarding Yields Fatality

Fall

The Benefits of 24/7 Secure Access to CRICO

• 24/7 Secure Access to CRICO
• CRICOconnect An Easy-to-Use Platform
• Underwriting Providing More Than You'd Expect
• Attending Aware of Post-op Sepsis Too Late

Summer

www.rmfcme.com: Get Credit for Patient Safety

• Get Credit for Patient Safety
• Effective Use of Clinical Decision Support
• CRICO Surgical Risk Reduction Program
• Lack of followup on screening mammography results in death

2008

Winter                

Assess Your Needs, Protect Your Assets

• Where Are You When Things Go Wrong
• When You Get a Notice from the Board
• Stapling is Cause of Surgical Error

Fall

Setting CRICO Premiums

• Setting CRICO Premiums A Recipe for Success
• Check the Box for Safety
• Best Practices in Referral Communication
• Communication Breakdown Prompts Lawsuit

Summer

Resident Supervision

• Resident Supervision and Patient Safety
• Look for the Card
• Are Attendings Liable for Residents’ Negligence?
• The Physician’s Legal Duty to Non-Patients

Spring

What's it Like to be Sued?

• What’s It Like to Be Sued?
• The Physician Defendant Experience
• Monitoring Completion of Abnormal Test Results
• Wrong Site Surgery Inspires Patient Safety Campaign

2007

September          

Diagnostic Error Targeted & Simulation Training

• CRICO Community Targets Diagnostic Error
• Simulation Training Enhances Learning in Harvard Medical Community
• Internet Communications User Beware
• Greater Supervision Greater Safety

June

Being Sued, Sharing the Burden

• Being Sued, Sharing the Burden
• Your Team, Your Partners
• High Severity Claims: Research Can Reduce Them
• Communicate and Document:Transparency Saves Lives

March

Member Support & Physician Instinct

• Committed to Excellence
• When Doctors “Just Know”
• Our Juries: Partners in Justice
• Callus or Sarcoma? Things Aren’t Always As They Seem

2006

December           

Physician Survey Results

• Patient Safety Survey Producing Results Together
• Sharing Uncertainty
• What Works Excellence in Referrals
• Consequences of Delayed Follow Up

September

Documentation – Legal & Medical Perspectives

• Documentation at Trial
• For Better Care... Write It Down
• Volunteering
• Records Aid Defense Verdict

June

Empathy & Volunteering

• Be Empathetic
• Volunteering
• Featured Case: Reporting Abuse