2011 Annual Benchmarking Report: Malpractice Risks in Emergency Medicine.

Book/Report

2011 Annual Benchmarking Report: Malpractice Risks in Emergency Medicine.

September 26, 2012

Ruoff G, ed. Cambridge, MA: CRICO Strategies; 2012.

View more articles from the same authors.

This report analyzes malpractice claims from 90 hospitals across the United States to identify risks in emergency medicine.

Free full text (PDF)

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

2014 Annual Benchmarking Report: Malpractice Risks in the Diagnostic Process.

January 14, 2015

Malpractice Risks in Communication Failures: 2015 Annual Benchmarking Report.

February 10, 2016

The Power to Predict: Leveraging Medical Malpractice Data to Reduce Patient Harm and Financial Loss.

June 24, 2020

Annual Benchmarking Report: Malpractice Risks in Surgery.

June 9, 2010

July 12, 2017

Medical Problem Solving: An Analysis of Clinical Reasoning.

March 27, 2005

How-to Guide: Prevent Obstetrical Adverse Events.

October 24, 2012

How-to Guides: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations.

August 8, 2012

A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds-Based Intervention.

September 5, 2012

Work Design Drivers of Organizational Learning about Operational Failures: A Laboratory Experiment on Medication Administration.

January 9, 2013

Safer Together Survey: Advancing Patient and Workforce Safety

January 18, 2023

How-to Guide: Multidisciplinary Rounds.

March 10, 2010

Thinking Outside the Pillbox: A System-wide Approach to Improving Patient Medication Adherence for Chronic Disease.

September 9, 2009

Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions.

March 6, 2005

Seven Leadership Leverage Points for Organization-Level Improvement in Health Care. Second edition.

June 1, 2005

Leadership Guide to Patient Safety: Resources and Tools for Establishing and Maintaining Patient Safety.

September 28, 2005

IHI Skilled Nursing Facility Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events.

January 27, 2016

Closing the Loop: A Guide to Safer Ambulatory Referrals in the EHR Era.

December 13, 2017

IHI Framework for Improving Joy in Work.

August 9, 2017

Patient Safety in the Home: Assessment of Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities.

September 6, 2017

Optimizing a Business Case for Safe Health Care: An Integrated Approach to Safety and Finance.

July 12, 2017

Respectful Management of Serious Clinical Adverse Events. Second Edition.

October 27, 2010

Achieving an Exceptional Patient and Family Experience of Inpatient Hospital Care.

March 23, 2011

Addressing the Opioid Crisis in the United States.

November 2, 2016

Out of the Crisis.

March 27, 2005

IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events. 2nd Edition.

May 9, 2009

Addressing the Opioid Epidemic: Is There a Role for Physician Education?

August 23, 2017

Organizational Learning from Experience in High-Hazard Industries: Problem Investigations as Off-line Reflective Practice.

March 6, 2005

A Framework for Safe, Reliable, and Effective Care.

February 15, 2017

Speaking Up Constructively: Managerial Practices that Elicit Solutions from Front-Line Employees.

March 9, 2011

Infection Prevention.

May 27, 2015

Maternal and Infant Health Inequality: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data.

February 22, 2023

Getting Results: Reliably Communicating and Acting on Critical Test Results.

July 12, 2006

Saving Mothers' Lives: Reviewing Maternal Deaths to Make Motherhood Safer—2003–2005.

January 2, 2008

First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety.

June 6, 2012

Principles of Risk Management and Patient Safety.

March 9, 2011

Patient Safety Handbook, Second Edition.

August 17, 2013

Order from Chaos: Accelerating Care Integration.

November 7, 2012

When Things Go Wrong: Voices of Patients and Families.

January 1, 2011

Mistaking error.

March 27, 2005

Human Error.

March 27, 2005

Medical Harm: Historical, Conceptual, and Ethical Dimensions of Iatrogenic Illness.

March 27, 2005

Merry and McCall Smith's Errors, Medicine, and the Law. 2nd ed.

March 6, 2005

Understanding and confronting our mistakes: the epidemiology of error in radiology and strategies for error reduction.

November 11, 2015

Improving Quality and Safety in Healthcare.

October 26, 2022

Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.

March 6, 2005

Acting between guidelines and reality- an interview study exploring the strategies of first line managers in patient safety work.

February 3, 2021

Coping with errors in the operating room: intraoperative strategies, postoperative strategies, and sex differences.

September 22, 2021

Paramedics turn to expired drugs due to shortages.

July 25, 2012

Sustaining Improvement.

July 20, 2016

Improving Patient and Worker Safety—Opportunities for Synergy, Collaboration and Innovation.

December 19, 2012

Most adverse events at hospitals still go unreported.

August 22, 2012

Is the FDA to blame for drug shortages?

August 8, 2012

Patient Safety and Satisfaction: The State of American Hospitals.

June 6, 2012

Organ donor's surgery death sparks questions.

April 18, 2012

Patient Safety Article Collection.

August 18, 2021

Dirty surgical tools put patients at risk.

March 7, 2012

10 medical errors that changed the standard of care.

February 15, 2012

How to Make Your Hospital Stay Safer and Cheaper: A Checklist.

November 7, 2012

IBM's Watson is learning its way to saving lives.

October 24, 2012

Patient Safety Measures: Complications.

January 30, 2005

UTMC nurse tossed out kidney, ruined it. National experts say error is rare.

September 5, 2012

Far more could be done to stop the deadly bacteria C. diff.

August 29, 2012

National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Patient Safety Measures: A Consensus Report.

June 27, 2012

Using Safety Cases in Industry and Healthcare.

February 13, 2013

Medicare study finds teaching hospitals have higher risk of complications; findings disputed.

February 29, 2012

Death of a boy prompts new medical efforts nationwide.

November 7, 2012

Computer viruses are "rampant" on medical devices in hospitals.

October 31, 2012

Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2012.

September 26, 2012

Surfing the Healthcare Tsunami: Bring Your Best Board.

May 16, 2012

Will false diagnosis cost Minnesota girl her life?

January 18, 2012

Drug shortages persist in US, harming care.

November 28, 2012

Call to Action: Safeguarding the Integrity of Healthcare Quality and Safety Systems.

October 31, 2012

Minnesota hospitals are testing ways to reduce return trips.

October 24, 2012

AHRQ patient safety project reduces bloodstream infections by 40 percent.

September 19, 2012

An infection, unnoticed, turns unstoppable.

July 25, 2012

Raising and Acting on Concerns about Patient Safety.

January 12, 2012

The PROMISES Project.

February 5, 2014

Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care.

September 26, 2012

Preventing medication mistakes.

May 16, 2012

Meeting the Joint Commission's 2013 National Patient Safety Goals.

November 10, 2010

Failure and rescue.

July 11, 2012

Patient safety incidents caused by poor quality surgical instruments.

September 4, 2019

Misdiagnosed: what to do when your doctor doesn't know.

July 27, 2011

Medical errors affecting the pediatric intensive care patient: incidence, identification, and practical solutions.

June 18, 2008

At Bellevue, a desperate fight to ensure the patients' safety.

November 14, 2012

Improving Transitions of Care: Hand-off Communications.

July 18, 2012

Preventing Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infections: a Global Challenge, a Global Perspective.

May 30, 2012

Protect Patients Against Preventable Harm from Improper Use of Single-dose⁄Single-use Vials.

May 16, 2012

Monday Mornings.

April 11, 2012

Canadian Incident Analysis Framework.

November 30, 2016

Patient Safety in Surgery.

February 14, 2018

Special Focus Issue: Patient Safety.

October 15, 2014

Front-Line Ownership: Generating a Cure Mindset for Patient Safety.

May 8, 2013

Patient Safety Papers 6.

May 2, 2012

Patient Safety Papers 3.

April 23, 2008

Scant oversight of drug maker in fatal meningitis outbreak.

October 17, 2012

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy.

May 16, 2012

Critical Incident Reviews, Significant Adverse Event Reports and Action Plans.

April 25, 2012

Management of Operating Room Critical Events.

November 18, 2020

Related Resources

Patient Safety Innovations

Remote Response Team and Customized Alert Settings Help Improve Management of Sepsis

May 31, 2023

Factors associated with diagnostic error: an analysis of closed medical malpractice claims.

April 19, 2023

Race differences in a malpractice event database in a large healthcare system.

March 1, 2023

Perspectives of emergency clinicians about medical errors resulting in patient harm or malpractice litigation.

November 30, 2022

Distributed Cognition and the Role of Nurses in Diagnostic Safety in the Emergency Department.

August 17, 2022

Factors associated with malpractice claim payout: an analysis of closed emergency department claims.

July 13, 2022

Closing Death’s Door: Legal Innovations to End the Epidemic of Healthcare Harm.

July 7, 2021

Identifying trigger concepts to screen emergency department visits for diagnostic errors.

December 16, 2020

The Power to Predict: Leveraging Medical Malpractice Data to Reduce Patient Harm and Financial Loss.

June 24, 2020

A 25-year-old teacher died after waiting hours at the ER. She's not the only one who saw delays.

March 11, 2020

Missed diagnosis of cancer in primary care: insights from malpractice claims data.

August 7, 2019

Patient Safety Ethics: How Vigilance, Mindfulness, Compliance, and Humility can Make Healthcare Safer.

July 24, 2019

Serious misdiagnosis-related harms in malpractice claims: the "Big Three": vascular events, infections, and cancers.

July 17, 2019

Lessons learned from a death outside a hospital's doorstep.

June 26, 2019

Overlooked guide wire: a multicomplicated Swiss Cheese Model example. Analysis of a case and review of the literature.

May 15, 2019

Trends in anesthesia-related liability and lessons learned.

March 6, 2019

Understanding diagnostic safety in emergency medicine: a case‐by‐case review of closed ED malpractice claims.

June 6, 2018

Vital signs: trends in emergency department visits for suspected opioid overdoses- United States, July 2016- September 2017.

March 21, 2018

Do EPs change their clinical behaviour in the hallway or when a companion is present? A cross-sectional survey.

March 21, 2018

NHTSA Fatigue in EMS Project.

March 14, 2018

Ten ERs in Colorado tried to curtail opioids and did better than expected.

March 7, 2018

WebM&M Cases

Shortcuts to Acetaminophen-induced Liver Failure

March 1, 2018

Task errors by emergency physicians are associated with interruptions, multitasking, fatigue and working memory capacity: a prospective, direct observation study.

January 31, 2018

Pediatric weight errors and resultant medication dosing errors in the emergency department.

November 22, 2017

Opioid abuse and poisoning: trends in inpatient and emergency department discharges.

November 1, 2017

Opioid prescribing for opioid-naive patients in emergency departments and other settings: characteristics of prescriptions and association with long-term use.

October 25, 2017

Medication errors in injured patients.

September 27, 2017

Advances in Patient Safety and Medical Liability.

September 6, 2017

Emergency diagnosis of cancer and previous general practice consultations: insights from linked patient survey data.

August 2, 2017

Incidence and predictors of opioid prescription at discharge after traumatic injury.

July 12, 2017

See More About The Topic

Emergency Departments

Health Care Providers

Risk Managers

Emergency Medicine

Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events