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Patient Safety Pearls in Primary Care
Availability
On-Demand
Credit Offered
0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Credit
0.5 Proprietary Copic Points Credit
COPIC’s claims experience has consistently demonstrated the specific steps and areas where adverse outcomes and subsequent claims arise in primary care. This course outlines the most common areas where these events occur and offers ways to prevent them.
-Identify the common elements that lead to adverse medical outcomes in primary care. -List the common diagnostic categories in which “failure to diagnose” claims are clustered. -Describe the role of communication as a causative factor and as a possible protective factor in medical errors. -Design an optimal clinical system to address abnormal imaging, lab, and pathology specimens. -Develop strategies to involve patients in their own shared decision making to optimize outcomes.
20 min.