Medical Error Prevention 2.0 Hours CE

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Course Objectives

1. Discuss the impact of medical errors on the US healthcare system from the perspective of patients, health providers, and health facility managers, and policymakers.
2. Explore the evolution of patient safety and medical error prevention initiatives in the United States.
3. Define the spectrum of medical errors and differentiate them from non-preventable adverse outcomes related to medical interventions.
4. Recognize common situations prone to medical errors, including shift sign-out, prolonged duty hours, staffing shortages, medication administration, and patient boarding.
5. Describe the common categories of medical errors, including medication errors, patient falls, and specific errors related to categories of diagnoses from the specialties of gastroenterology, neurology, cardiology, oncology.
6. Describe the causes of medication prescribing and administration errors, and outline strategies to reduce their incidence.
7. List international best practices related to safe surgery including checklists and pre-procedure time-outs.
8. Recognize and respond to the critical diagnosis of spinal cord compression.
9. Explore the causative factors behind medical errors including negligence, poor communication, diversions of attention, fatigue, system inefficiencies, cognitive biases, and technology.
10. List regulatory and legal consequences associated with medical errors including patient safety goals, fines, licensure actions, and malpractice litigation.
11. Outline strategies related to patient safety and error prevention including team-based approaches, standardization, guidelines, shift work optimization, and cognitive training... (more)

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As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Central Florida College of Medicine Continuous Professional Development (CPD) will ensure that everyone who is in a position to control the content of an educational activity has disclosed all relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies to CPD. The ACCME defines ‘relevant’ financial relationships as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 24 months that create a conflict of interest. An ineligible company are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be ineligible companies – unless the provider of clinical service is owned or controlled by an ACCME-defined ineligible company... (more)

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