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ForwardMedical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety
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Medical Errors: Promoting a Culture of Patient Safety satisfies continuing education relicensure requirements on prevention of medical errors 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 misdiagnosed conditions during the previous biennium, as determined by the Florida Board.
Samaritan Physicians: Successful completion of this activity will qualify Samaritan physicians for annual policy discounts. Upon completion, please print your certificate and submit to Samaritan for consideration.
Current Florida Board of Medicine relicensure requirements available here.
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Allopathic Physicians, Dentists, Podiatrists, Physician Assistants, Anesthesia Assistants, Dietitians and Social Workers licensed in the State of Florida.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion, participants should be able to:
- Identify the most commonly misdiagnosed conditions during the previous biennium as identified by the Florida Board of Medicine.
- Define the process and benefit of root cause analysis.
- Address error-prone situations to create safe systems of care as an error reduction and prevention strategy.
- Identify cognitive and system-related causes of diagnostic error.
- Explain the impact of electronic medical records (EMR) on medical errors made during hospitalizations and the role of EMR in patient safety.
- Implement Baptist Health policies and procedures for reporting medical errors and adverse events.
Mark L. Graber, M.D., FACP
CMO, Founder and President Emeritus
Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine
Senior Fellow, Health Care Quality and Outcomes
RTI International
Professor Emeritus, SUNY Stony Brook
Palm Desert, California
Louis T. Gidel, M.D., Ph.D., FCCP
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Chief Quality Medical Director of Telehealth
Baptist Health South Florida
Content Contributors:
Yvette A. King-Archer, BSN, R.N.
Corporate Patient Safety Officer
Risk Management
Baptist Health South Florida
Elizabeth Greene Taquechel, M.S., R.N., CPHQ
Corporate Patient Safety Officer
Risk Management/Patient Safety Department
Baptist Health South Florida
Louis T. Gidel, M.D., Ph.D., Yvette A. King-Archer, BSN, R.N., and Elizabeth Greene Taquechel, M.S., R.N., CPHQ, have no relevant financial relationship with ineligible companies* to disclose and have indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Mark L. Graber, M.D., FACP, is on the advisory boards of MayaMD, Buoy Health, Peach Intellihealth and RecoverX and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual has been mitigated.
Content contributors, narrator, nonfaculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies*.
*Ineligible companies -- Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
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.
This activity has been approved for 2 credit hours, CE Broker Course #20-997934, by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Podiatry, Dentistry and by the Florida Council of Physician Assistants.
This activity has also been approved for 2 credit hours by the Florida Council of Dietetics and Nutrition. Baptist Health South Florida CE Broker Provider #50-182.
American Board of Surgery - Maintenance of Certification (MOC) - Accredited CME - General Surgery
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
Your participation information will be shared with specialty boards through the ACCME's PARS reporting system. Successful completion of a course examination is required. Submissions are recorded in approximately 48 hours. You will receive an email when your credits have been processed.
Available Credit
- 2.00 ABS MOC II
- 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 2.00 General certificate of attendance
- 2.00 Florida Board of Dentistry
- 2.00 Florida Board of Dietitians
- 2.00 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
- 2.00 Florida Board of Podiatric Medicine
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