Reducing risk with clinical decision support: a study of closed malpractice claims.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Identify clinical opportunities to intervene to prevent a malpractice event and determine the proportion of malpractice claims potentially preventable by clinical decision support (CDS).

Materials and methods

Cross-sectional review of closed malpractice claims over seven years from one malpractice insurance company and seven hospitals in the Boston area. For each event, clinical opportunities to intervene to avert the malpractice event and the presence or absence of CDS that might have a role in preventing the event, were assigned by a panel of expert raters. Compensation paid out to resolve a claim (indemnity), was associated with each CDS type.

Results

Of the 477 closed malpractice cases, 359 (75.3%) were categorized as substantiated and 195 (54%) had at l

SUBMITTER: Zuccotti G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4187091 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature