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The Power of Medical Malpractice Stories to Improve Patient Safety.

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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.

Recognizing Unsafe Care: What It Is and How to Report It.

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Patient Safety Foundation. August 26, 2021.

This webinar introduced medical error and harm as related concepts to identify unsafe care and enhance response, engagement, and reporting efforts of clinicians, patients and families.

Unite for Safe Care.

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Patient Safety Movement. September 17, 2021.

Patient safety is a global challenge for the health care community. This webinar coincided with World Patient Safety Day and presented two tracks for both the profession and the public that highlighted issues impacting maternal care safety and high reliability. Those who have lost their lives to medical error were also honored during the event. The session speakers included Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, Jeff Brady, MD, and Albert Wu, MD.

Advancing Maternal Health Equity and Reducing Maternal Mortality Workshop.

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. June 7-8, 2021.

Maternal safety is challenged by clinical, equity, and social influences. This virtual event examined maternal health conditions in the United States to improve health system practice and performance for this population. Discussions addressed the need for better data collection, evidence-based practice, and social determinants knowledge integration to enhance the safety of care.

Do No Harm: Are We Preventing Medication Errors in Children with Medical Complexity?

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Children's Healthcare Canada. April 7, 2021.

Children are particularly vulnerable to medication errors. This session discussed risk factors in children with complex care needs and reviewed existing strategies to reduce the potential for harm due to mistakes in their medication therapies.

Reimagining Healing after Healthcare Harm: The Potential for Restorative Practices.

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Patients for Patient Safety Canada. Canadian Patient Safety Institute. August 4, 2020.

Patients injured while receiving health care are susceptible to physical, financial and psychological harm. This webinar introduced strategies to rebuild the physical health of these patients and the trust that they and their loved ones have in the system of care.

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

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Cambridge, MA; CRICO Strategies: July 14, 2020.

Malpractice claims can generate data that informs safety efforts. This webinar discussed one large health system’s professional liability claim analysis and the factors contributing to indemnity payments. The session reviewed how examining liability results can proactively focus organizational training and improvement initiatives.

Ensuring Healthcare Safety Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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US Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s Technical Resources, Assistance Center, & Information Exchange; US Health and Human Services/FEMA COVID-19 Healthcare Resilience Task Force. June 2, 2020.

Health systems are rapidly adjusting processes to successfully respond to COVID-19 crisis demands. This webinar featured tactics used and discussed initiative results to inform continued improvement. The speaker roster included Jeff Brady, MD and Rollin (Terry) Fairbanks, MD.

Keeping Nursing Home Residents and Staff Safe in the Era of COVID-19.

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National Academy of Medicine. April-June 2020.

Nursing homes are care environments that are particularly challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. This webinar series covered topics such as keeping nursing home residents and the staff that care for them safe, practice integration in skilled nursing facilities, communication and collaboration in times of crisis, testing and SARS-CoV-2 transmission prevention tactics.

COVID-19 Webinars.

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The International Society for Quality in Health Care. March - May 2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a worldwide crisis that requires organizations, governments, and individuals to draw from the collective experience and rapidly improve practice. This series of webinars discuss a variety of foci to share experience from the field. Topics covered include human factors engineering, clinician support, and communication.

Profiles in Excellence: Quality Improvement Lessons--Parts 1 and 2.

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American Hospital Association; AHA; Health Research and Educational Trust; HRET.

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize winners are recognized for commitment to the goals outlined in Crossing the Quality Chasm. These webinars shared insights from health care organizations that received recognition in 2015 for implementing programs to form partnerships with patients, families, and their communities to generate improvements in health care and eliminate harm.

AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference.

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; AHRQ.

This Web site provides access to presentation materials from AHRQ's first annual conference, held in September 2007.

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