Medical Errors: Identifying and Avoiding Common Misdiagnoses in Clinical Practice

Overview

After this session, you will be able to assess risk of medical errors and prevent them in your medical practices.

Learning Objectives

• Provide examples of common errors in clinical practice and why they happen
• Provide strategies for decreasing the risk of medical errors
• Identify practices that providers can implement to reduce the chance of making errors, including involving patients as partners and use of guidelines
• Describe steps to mitigate legal outcomes