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ACS, Philadelphia health care leaders discuss physician-led quality...
ACS Surgical Health Care Quality Forum Philadelphia (left to right): Dr. Pauly, Dr. Steele, Dr. Kaiser, U.S. Representative Gerlach, Dr. Schwartz, Dr. Snyder, and Dr. Kukora. The American College of...
View ArticleBuilding consensus on ways to minimize overuse of five treatments
To help reach a consensus on ways to reduce the use of five common medical treatments that are sometimes employed unnecessarily, The Joint Commission and the American Medical Association (AMA)...
View Article2012 state legislative wrap-up
The legislatures in several states—Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, and Texas—did not convene last year, and the legislatures in Arkansas, Oregon, and West Virginia held shorter budget sessions. Hence, a...
View ArticleAttorneys and physicians share common goals: The medical liability lawyer’s...
What do surgeons and liability attorneys want for patients and the health care system? Their answers are likely more similar than is frequently acknowledged. Commitment to safety Both surgeons and...
View ArticleMore emphasis on safety needed: The patient advocate’s perspective
The U.S. health care system boasts some of the world’s most sophisticated medical treatment, superior medical education and training, and hundreds of thousands of conscientious and committed health...
View ArticleHealth courts will not cure all liability ills
Proponents of health courts say that they will address several problems with the current medical liability system, including uncertainty in judgments, an unpredictable compensation structure, and...
View ArticleHealth courts may be best cure for what ails the liability system
America’s medical liability system is broken. It incurs high administrative costs, does little to improve the care that patients receive, and compels health care providers to waste billions of dollars...
View ArticleNew York State shows benefits of CRP demonstration project
As other authors in this special edition of the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons have noted, medical liability lawsuits are financially and emotionally costly. In these respects and more,...
View ArticleThe University of Michigan’s Early Disclosure and Offer Program
Medical liability litigation is a powerful force in the U.S. health care community. The mere possibility of being sued may affect clinical decision making, strain physician-patient relationships, and...
View ArticleAHRQ program promotes patient safety and liability reform
Medical liability reform efforts traditionally have focused on lowering the cost and increasing the availability of liability insurance for physicians. Caps on awards have been viewed as the key means...
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Symptoms of normal recovery or complication: The risks of postoperative care
In March of 2013, The Doctors Company conducted a study of medical liability claims filed against general surgeons. These claims closed between 2007 and the third quarter of 2012. Events resulting in...
View ArticleThe role of politics in shaping surgical training
A defining quality of professionalism is commitment to a core set of values, regardless of divergent external pressures. The external forces affecting surgical training and practice have grown in...
View ArticleRegister now for Clinical Congress offerings in patient safety and disaster...
This year’s American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress, October 6–10, in Washington, DC, will include new Skills-Oriented and Didactic Postgraduate Courses and Panel Sessions on patient...
View ArticleCentennial reprint: The College’s ongoing commitment to the quality imperative
As part of the American College of Surgeons’ yearlong Centennial celebration, the Bulletin has been reprinting articles centered on the issues and developments that have defined the character and...
View Article2013 state legislative wrap-up
This year was an exceptionally busy one for the state legislatures. As January 2013 trundled in, the majority of state legislatures went to work almost immediately on a host of issues related to state...
View ArticleThe quest for safe surgical care: Are we missing the obvious?
Given the increasing case complexity, the introduction of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools for use in the operating room (OR), and collaboration with other interventionists, the need for safe...
View ArticleBlameless or blameworthy errors: Does your organization make a distinction?
Preventable patient harm events result in millions of dollars in additional care as well as the unnecessary grief and suffering of patients and their families. A strong safety culture allows for the...
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Vascular practice develops night float call system to improve attending...
Surgeons are tremendously dedicated to the delivery of optimal care. The commitment of generations of surgeons affects the care of a modern vascular surgery patient, now treated with a host of open and...
View ArticleNational Time Out Day focuses on every patient, every time
Wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong person surgeries (WSS) continue to occur in health care organizations across the U.S. To help avoid these preventable errors, The Joint Commission strongly...
View ArticleLiability reform, scope of practice, trauma topped state legislative agendas...
State legislatures proved to be successful in debating, passing, and implementing a significant amount of legislation in 2014, even though some states had shorter, budget-focused sessions, while the...
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