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Learning From Error: Adverse Event Reporting in Clinical Practice

This microlesson emphasizes the importance of addressing and reporting adverse events and highlights the role physicians play in patient safety and quality improvement. By reporting both adverse events and near misses, physicians can help uncover system failures and reduce preventable…

Learning From Error: Creating Effective Adverse Event Reports

Adverse event reports help uncover system weaknesses, making them an important part of patient safety. This microlesson provides physicians with the requirements and best practices to produce accurate and timely adverse event reports. This microlesson is part of a four-part…

Learning From Error: Applying Root Cause Analysis in Health Care

In health care settings, thorough investigations are vital for identifying design flaws and process errors. This microlesson focuses on root cause analysis (RCA), a type of investigation designed to identify the underlying causes of events. Through case studies and interactive…

Ethics Talk: Ethical and Clinical Complexities of SDOH Screening and Follow-up

This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about screening children for structural drivers of health. The featured guests are Laura Gottlieb, MD, MPH, a professor of Family Community…