The Doctor’s Advocate | Fourth Quarter 2018
Innovations in Patient Safety
Collaborating to Improve Obstetrical Practices
Our video series highlights how doctors nationwide are using the data-driven insights from our closed claims studies to improve patient safety in their practices or hospitals. Our vast database of claims gives us an unparalleled understanding of the most common patient allegations and factors contributing to injury, and our specialty-specific studies help shine a light on risks others don’t see.
This quarter, we feature Jay M. Berman, MD, FACOG, of the Wayne State University Physician Group in Detroit, Michigan, who describes changes his practice made to improve patient safety based on the data and recommendations in our Obstetrics Closed Claims Study.
The study provided a common understanding on which colleagues, hospital administrators, residents, and nursing staff were able to work collaboratively to make changes. To reduce the risk of shoulder dystocia and obstetric hemorrhage, the practice improved documentation of these events in its electronic medical records and adopted real-time drills to improve staff response.
The practice also instituted a new fetal monitoring system and improved training programs for fetal monitoring, upgraded its education for residents, and adopted methods to improve communication and patient handoff among providers and staff on the labor floor.
Watch this important video for Dr. Berman’s insights on improving patient safety and reducing risks.
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Fourth Quarter 2018
An Ounce of Prevention
Mitigating the Risk of Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome
Government Relations Report
Inflated Medical Damages and Lien-Based Care
Innovations in Patient Safety
Collaborating to Improve Obstetrical Practices
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The Doctors Company Foundation Funds 2018 Telluride Experience Patient Safety Camps
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