Patient Safety Program

The educational events will:

• Provide guidance for appropriate patient selection to improve outcomes.

• Empower healthcare organizations to enhance the patient experience and obtain benchmark performance.

• Enable orthopedic surgeons to reduce complications, whereby decreasing rates of nerve injury associated with total joint replacements.

• Bridge the gap between institutions and providers by recognizing and sharing best practices.

You will learn strategies:

• For documentation of the pre-operative, operative, post-operative phases to mitigate risk.
• To limit allegations of a lack of informed consent.
• On how to disclose unanticipated outcomes.
• Facilitate prompt and equitable post-operative follow-up care for suspected nerve injuries to improve patient outcomes from such events.
• On how to handle patient noncompliance.
• To enhance communication between physicians, patients, staff and facilities.

Audit Tools and Resources provided during the live events include:

• Risk management for:
  
• Office practice
  
• Surgical services
• Ambulatory Surgery centers
  
• Self-auditing tools: Training tool/resource for staff to record observations