Safety Net

Safety leader praises Harvard malpractice company and clinician alliance model.

With widespread job burnout among clinicians, new studies look at ways to reduce the prevalence and the harm. CRICO interviews researchers and doctors who have left medicine, to share their insights and ideas.

Doctors are less accurate with difficult diagnoses, yet research shows that their level of confidence in in their conclusions remains high in those cases. The situation is ripe for poor patient outcomes and medical malpractice litigation.

A confident doctor bolsters worried patients and directs the care process. But when it comes to diagnosing difficult cases, some doctors are much more confident than they should be.

At the movies or in bed, these physicians share how their personal lives are often invaded by worry: how is that patient doing, and did I do everything right or all that I could?

Physicians share their experience delving into patient safety and quality work. What were the practical lessons in communication and systems and risk?

Morbidity and mortality rounds are a time-honored method of learning from difficult hospital cases. Now that most care—and most lawsuits—happen in ambulatory settings, the Harvard teaching hospitals are trying M+Ms at their out-patient sites.

Targeted information in EMRs sought for safety

Whether it was from humble beginnings or high expectations or both, six Harvard physicians share how they decided to enter the healing profession.

New approach to safer med delivery requires all disciplines—and top leadership—to commit to making it work.