This course offers an overview of how key patient safety, risk mitigation, and error reduction principles apply to the most commonly encountered high-risk clinical entities. Using medical literature, claims data, and case studies, we provide valuable information and recommendations you can apply in your next shift and throughout your career. The course covers appendicitis, pediatric meningitis, pediatric abdominal presentations, myocardial infarction, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and pulmonary embolism. Each lesson analyzes why these diagnoses are often missed and offers recommendations for how to reduce the frequency of medical errors and the failure to diagnose. After completing this course, providers and the healthcare team should be able to: apply an understanding of how the concepts of patient safety, risk mitigation and error reduction apply to the most commonly encountered high-risk clinical entities including appendicitis, pediatric meningitis, pediatric abdominal presentations, myocardial infarction, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and pulmonary embolism.
Credit & MOC Details
Credit information is provided by the course provider. We recommend confirming credit eligibility with the provider or your licensing board before starting the activity.
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Target Specialties
Specialties served/covered
- Addiction Medicine
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Clinical Informatics
- Clinician Wellness & Burnout
- Communication & Shared Decision-Making
- Critical Care Medicine
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Emergency Medicine
- Family Medicine
- General & Adult Psychiatry
- General Internal Medicine
- General Operative Anesthesia
- General Pediatrics
- General Surgery
- Geriatric Medicine
- Health Equity & Inclusion
- Hospital Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- Maternal-Fetal Medicine
- Medical Genetics & Genomics
- Medical Leadership & Administration
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Orthopaedic Trauma
- Patient Safety & Quality Improvement
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- Pediatric Urology
- Practice Management & Ethics
- Surgical Critical Care
- Trauma Surgery
- Urology
- Vascular Neurology
- Vascular Surgery
- Anesthesiology
- Cardio-Vascular
- Cross-Specialty
- Emergency & Critical Care
- Infectious Disease
- Internal Medicine
- Medical Subspecialties
- Neurology
- Ob/Gyn
- Orthopedics
- Pediatrics
- Primary care
- Psychiatry
- Radiology
- Surgery
- Urology
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- Case-based learning
- includes Online course / module
- Credit · Up to 3 credits
- Fee · varies
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ReleasedJul 9, 2024
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Last day to claim creditJul 9, 2027 9 months left
