The Power of Medical Malpractice Stories to Improve Patient Safety.

Meeting/Conference Proceedings

The Power of Medical Malpractice Stories to Improve Patient Safety.

May 11, 2022

The Collaborative for Accountability and Improvement. May 19, 2022.

The sharing of stories is a key approach for providing information and context to promote change. This webinar focused on stories drawn from lawsuits, the general patient and family motivation of legal action to minimize the repetition of similar errors, and the ironies involved in the adherence to legal confidentiality that can reduce learning from error.

Available at

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

A Conversation Among Stakeholders on Medical Malpractice.

April 6, 2022

Creating a Communication Coaching Structure and Support for your CRP Program.

September 12, 2022 - September 12, 2022

Getting Started with a Communication and Resolution Program (CRP) Policy or Commitment Statement to CR.

January 25, 2023

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Patient Experiences with CRPs.

October 21, 2021 - October 21, 2021

What Do You Do If You Think You Have Been Harmed By Your Healthcare.

February 28, 2024

Driving Learning and Improvement After RCA2 Event Reviews.

January 11, 2023

Association of diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in critically ill children with culture rates, antibiotic use, and patient outcomes: results of the Bright STAR Collaborative.

May 18, 2022

COVID-19: patient safety and quality improvement skills to deploy during the surge.

June 24, 2020

Declaration to Advance Patient Safety.

May 25, 2022

National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being.

September 28, 2022

A blueprint for success: implementation of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services mandated anesthesiology oversight for procedural sedation in a large health system.

June 15, 2022

Lessons Learned about Human Fallibility, System Design, and Justice in the Aftermath of a Fatal Medication Error.

May 6, 2022 - May 6, 2022

An objective framework for evaluating unrecognized bias in medical AI models predicting COVID-19 outcomes.

June 1, 2022

The relationship between high-reliability practice and hospital-acquired conditions among the Solutions for Patient Safety Collaborative.

October 20, 2021

Racial and ethnic discrepancy in pulse oximetry and delayed identification of treatment eligibility among patients with COVID-19.

June 22, 2022

What Happened to Patient Safety.

June 14, 2023

Surgical safety checklist audits may be misleading! Improving the implementation and adherence of the surgical safety checklist: a quality improvement project.

December 22, 2021

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care: a global collaborative study.

November 11, 2020

An asset-based quality improvement tool for health care organizations: cultivating organization wide quality improvement and health care professional engagement.

October 19, 2022

Urgent referrals from primary care to dermatology for lesions suspicious for skin cancer: patterns, outcomes, and need for systems improvement.

December 7, 2022

Analysis of suicides reported as adverse events in psychiatry resulted in nine quality improvement initiatives.

July 21, 2021

Patient safety and quality improvement adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 21, 2021

Detecting and assessing suicide ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 26, 2021

Delays in diagnosis, treatment, and surgery: root causes, actions taken, and recommendations for healthcare improvement.

June 1, 2022

The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 12, 2022

Sustaining improvement of hospital-wide initiative for patient safety and quality: a systematic scoping review.

February 1, 2023

Teamwork before and during COVID-19: the good, the same, and the ugly….

August 24, 2022

Association between hospital acquired harm outcomes and membership in a national patient safety collaborative.

August 10, 2022

The abrupt expansion of ambulatory telemedicine: implications for patient safety.

February 9, 2022

Ethical leadership supports safety voice by increasing risk perception and reducing ethical ambiguity: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic.

November 9, 2022

Safety Considerations for Container Labels and Carton Labeling Design to Minimize Medication Errors: Guidance for Industry.

May 25, 2022

Human factors and ergonomics to improve performance in intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic.

June 2, 2021

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, meaningful communication between family caregivers and residents of long-term care facilities is imperative.

June 24, 2020

ACGME Summary Report: The Pursuing Excellence Pathway Leaders Patient Safety Collaborative.

November 18, 2020

The Role of Clinical Learning Environments in Preparing New Clinicians to Engage in Patient Safety.

October 18, 2017

Changes in burnout and satisfaction with work-life integration in physicians over the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 26, 2022

Missed nursing care in the critical care unit, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparative cross-sectional study.

June 22, 2022

National Steering Committee for Patient Safety.

June 27, 2018

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Benefits and Challenges of Machine Learning Technologies for Medical Diagnostics.

October 26, 2022

Cold debriefings after in-hospital cardiac arrest in an international pediatric resuscitation quality improvement collaborative.

September 2, 2020

SOPS Nursing Home Survey: What You Need to Know.

May 3, 2022

The PROMISES Project.

February 5, 2014

Six major steps to make investigations of suicide valuable for learning and prevention.

November 2, 2022

The barriers and enhancers to trust in a just culture in hospital settings: a systematic review.

August 17, 2022

Variation in the reporting of elective surgeries and its influence on patient safety indicators.

July 6, 2022

The frequency and nature of prescribing problems by general practitioners in training (REVISiT).

June 15, 2022

Improving the approach to defining, classifying, reporting and monitoring adverse events in seriously ill older adults: recommendations from a multi-stakeholder convening.

June 15, 2022

NCICLE Pathways to Excellence: Expectations for an Optimal Clinical Learning Environment to Achieve Safe and High-Quality Patient Care, 2021.

November 24, 2021

Self-reported adherence to high reliability practices among participants in the Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety Collaborative.

December 12, 2018

We're all in this together: how COVID-19 revealed the co-construction of mindful organising and organisational reliability.

February 9, 2022

Changes in unprofessional behaviour, teamwork, and co-operation among hospital staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

September 28, 2022

'Doing the best we can': Registered nurses' experiences and perceptions of patient safety in intensive care during COVID-19.

September 7, 2022

Exploring the intersection of structural racism and ageism in healthcare.

December 7, 2022

Disclosure of adverse events in pediatrics.

January 11, 2017

Assessment of changes in visits and antibiotic prescribing during the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use and the COVID-19 Pandemic.

July 20, 2022

Creating Workforce Joy and Wellbeing.

March 6, 2024 - May 20, 2024

IHI Patient Safety Congress.

May 14, 2024 - May 16, 2024

DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses in Patient Safety.

September 18, 2023

Crossover of the patient satisfaction surveys, adverse events and patient complaints for continuous improvement in radiotherapy department.

April 20, 2022

Analysis of the interprofessional clinical learning environment for quality improvement and patient safety from perspectives of interprofessional teams.

March 16, 2022

Data-driven quality improvement, culture change, and the high reliability journey at a special hospital for people with medically complex developmental disabilities.

March 11, 2020

COVID-19 Special Series

May 12, 2020

Determining the skills needed by frontline NHS staff to deliver quality improvement: findings from six case studies.

June 8, 2022

We asked the experts: the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and the COVID-19 pandemic: recommendations for content and implementation adaptations.

March 17, 2021

Rapid-cycle improvement during the COVID-19 pandemic: using safety reports to inform incident command.

October 7, 2020

Safety gaps in medical team communication: closing the loop on quality improvement efforts in the cardiac catheterization lab.

June 8, 2022

Laboratory medicine handoff gaps experienced by primary care practices: a report from the Shared Networks of Collaborative Ambulatory Practices and Partners (SNOCAP).

December 3, 2014

Case Study Webinar Series on Clinician Burnout: The Ohio State University

November 13, 2019

COVID-19 can last for several months. The disease’s “long-haulers” have endured relentless waves of debilitating symptoms—and disbelief from doctors and friends.

July 1, 2020

Ethical considerations and patient safety concerns for cancelling non-urgent surgeries during the COVID-19 pandemic: a review.

May 12, 2021

Using Machine Learning to Improve Patient Safety in the Home or Remote Setting for Adults.

February 15, 2023

Rise to Health Coalition.

December 14, 2022

Ensuring Healthcare Safety Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic.

June 10, 2020

Identifying barriers to and opportunities for telehealth implementation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic by using a human factors approach: a leap into the future of health care delivery?

May 5, 2021

COVID-19: the dark side and the sunny side for patient safety.

October 14, 2020

Assisting beginners in root cause analysis operations: analysis and recommendations regarding the spread of COVID-19 in nursing facilities for the elderly.

September 30, 2020

Falling through the cracks: the invisible hospital cleaning workforce.

October 26, 2022

Bias at warp speed: how AI may contribute to the disparities gap in the time of COVID-19.

September 9, 2020

Examining the effect of quality improvement initiatives on decreasing racial disparities in maternal morbidity.

May 4, 2022

For-profit long-term care homes and the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks and resident deaths.

August 19, 2020

Discussing Unanticipated Outcomes and Disclosing Medical Errors.

March 6, 2005

Infection Control Deficiencies Were Widespread and Persistent in Nursing Homes Prior to COVID-19 Pandemic.

May 27, 2020

Progress Made Towards Improving Opioid Safety, But Further Efforts to Assess Progress and Reduce Risk Are Needed.

July 11, 2018

VA Health Care: Selected Credentialing Requirements at Seven Medical Facilities Met, but an Aspect of Privileging Process Needs Improvement.

July 5, 2006

VA Health Care: Steps Taken to Improve Practitioner Screening, but Facility Compliance with Screening Requirements is Poor.

July 5, 2006

A multicenter collaborative effort to reduce preventable patient harm due to retained surgical items.

November 30, 2022

Improving Diagnosis and Treatment of Maternal Sepsis.

April 1, 2020

Drug Shortages: FDA's Ability to Respond Should Be Strengthened.

January 4, 2012

Effect on diagnostic accuracy of cognitive reasoning tools for the workplace setting: systematic review and meta-analysis.

September 14, 2022

What are the implications for patient safety and experience of a major healthcare IT breakdown? A qualitative study.

May 26, 2021

Where Medical Errors Occur and How to Avoid Them.

June 23, 2010

Patient Options for Safe and Effective Disposal of Unused Opioids.

September 25, 2019

Approaches and Challenges to Electronically Matching Patients' Records Across Providers.

March 6, 2019

Greater Focus on Credentialing Needed to Prevent Disqualified Providers From Delivering Patient Care.

March 13, 2019

COVID-19 pandemic preparation: using simulation for systems-based learning to prepare the largest healthcare workforce and system in Canada.

September 30, 2020

The emergency department trigger tool: a novel approach to screening for quality and safety events.

September 30, 2020

COVID-19 crisis, safe reopening of simulation centres and the new normal: food for thought.

August 19, 2020

The challenges and opportunities for shared decision making highlighted by COVID-19.

August 12, 2020

The influence of COVID-19 visitation restrictions on patient experience and safety outcomes: a critical role for subjective advocates.

July 14, 2021

Crisis management for surgical teams and their leaders, lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic; a structured approach to developing resilience or natural organisational responses.

September 15, 2021

Related Resources

National Action Alliance to Advance Patient and Workforce Safety Webinar Series.

September 26, 2023 - September 26, 2023

Prioritizing Patient Safety Through Quality Measurement.

February 28, 2024

Best Practices for Administering SOPS Surveys.

January 24, 2024 - January 24, 2024

Spotlight Series

January 27, 2022 - January 27, 2022

Unequal Treatment Revisited: A Workshop Series.

September 26, 2023 - September 27, 2023

SOPS Surveys.

November 28, 2023

Bringing a ‘Systemness’ Focus to Quality, Safety, and Patient Experience.

December 7, 2023 - December 7, 2023

Annual Communication, Apology, and Resolution (CARe) Forum.

August 10, 2023

Advancing Diagnostic Excellence in Maternal Health Care.

July 27, 2023 - July 27, 2023

SOPS Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey: What You Need to Know.

April 27, 2023 - April 27, 2023

APSF Stoelting Conference.

September 6, 2023 - September 7, 2023

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

April 19, 2023

World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit.

June 1, 2023 - June 2, 2023

Association of past and future paid medical malpractice claims.

March 1, 2023

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

March 1, 2023

New AHRQ SOPS Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Nursing Homes.

February 15, 2023

Emerging Topics in Quality Improvement.

February 14, 2023 - February 14, 2023

Driving Learning and Improvement After RCA2 Event Reviews.

January 11, 2023

The National Healthcare System Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety.

November 14, 2022 - November 14, 2022

Opportunities to Improve Patient Safety, Advancing U.S. Innovation, and Innovation Hubs.

October 5, 2022

The deterrent effect of tort law: evidence from medical malpractice reform.

September 28, 2022

Medical malpractice lawsuits involving trainees in obstetrics and gynecology in the USA.

September 21, 2022

Creating a Communication Coaching Structure and Support for your CRP Program.

September 12, 2022 - September 12, 2022

Addressing the Loss of Trust in Safety Culture.

September 7, 2022

Trial and error: learning from malpractice claims in childhood surgery.

August 24, 2022

Healthcare Safety Investigations Conference 2022.

August 3, 2022

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

July 13, 2022

Engaging Physicians in Teamwork Training for Quality and Safety - Or Why Don’t Your Physicians Get Engaged?

June 8, 2022 - June 8, 2022

Lessons Learned about Human Fallibility, System Design, and Justice in the Aftermath of a Fatal Medication Error.

May 6, 2022 - May 6, 2022

SOPS Nursing Home Survey: What You Need to Know.

May 3, 2022

See More About The Topic

Risk Managers

Medical Complications

Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events

Malpractice Litigation

The Power of Medical Malpractice Stories to Improve Patient Safety.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The Power of Medical Malpractice Stories to Improve Patient Safety.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site