Medical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety

Medical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety is organized by Baptist Health South Florida.

Course opens: 02/01/2020
Course expires: 01/31/2021

Accreditation:
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Description:
Medical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety satisfies continuing education relicensure requirements for Florida doctors. The purpose of this course is to promote patient safety and improve patient outcomes by providing an overview of the safety concerns facing healthcare systems today, including statistics and background on the magnitude of the problem and error reduction, prevention and root cause analysis. This course includes information relating to the five most mis-diagnosed conditions during the previous biennium, as determined by the Florida Board.

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion, participants should be able to: 
• Recognize the incidence of medical errors and identify the most commonly misdiagnosed conditions during the previous biennium. 
• Identify error-prone situations, processes and factors, and create a culture of safety in order to reduce errors. 
• Implement processes to approach error reduction and prevention in order to improve patient outcomes. 
• Identify cognitive and system-related causes of diagnostic error.
• Define the process and benefit of root cause analysis.
• Explain the impact of electronic medical records (EMR) on medical errors made during hospitalizations and the role of EMR in patient safety. 
• Delineate Baptist Health policies and procedures for reporting medical errors.