Protecting and Disclosing Proactive Risk Assessments
One of toughest risk management issues today is how to satisfy the requirements for proactive risk assessments such as ICRA, RCA, and FMEA and yet protect them from discovery. How can we balance this requirement for risk assessment and protection against the equally compelling TJC requirement for disclosure of unexpected outcomes?
In this half-day seminar participants will:
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Review the types of proactive risk assessments now required by TJC and CMS
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Consider the risk of risk assessments being discovered through litigation
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Understand what strategies are available to risk managers to protect risk assessments from discovery and admission as evidence
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Review what triggers can be used to determine if an unanticipated outcome should be disclosed
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Learn how and what to disclose outcomes to patients and families
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Learn what four critical things must be in every satisfactory unanticipated outcomes disclosure made to a patient and/or their family to reduce your risk exposure