Online Continuing Education Courses

Hour One:

• Discuss common medical errors made in the process of choosing diagnostic imaging for patients with cervical spine injuries
• Discuss the role of Clinical Prediction Rules and their role in preventing common errors in overutilization of radiographic studies in patients with cervical spine injuries
• Describe the Canadian C-Spine Rule, Canadian Head CT Rule and NEXUS Low-Risk Criteria, as well as their limitations and exceptions
• Review the literature supporting the use of Clinical Prediction Rules in the prevention of medical errors

Hour Two:

• Discuss limitations of plain film radiography in the evaluation of injured patients, and strategies to avoid medical errors due to inappropriate selection of imaging modalities
• Discuss relevant clinical indications for ordering advanced imaging studies in the evaluation of patients with cervical spine injuries
• Review common advanced imaging studies and their role in preventing medical errors of commission or omission
• Discuss the clinical relevance of recognizing loss of cervical motion segment integrity in the evaluation and management of injured patients

• Discuss the definition and scope of medical error
• Summarize the types of medical error
• Identify and describe ongoing safety research within the chiropractic profession
• Review the literature on the adverse events following chiropractic care
• Illustrate strategies to prevent common errors

• Recommend taking Medical Errors 202a and 202b prior to taking this course
• Summarize surgical errors and identify factors that increase the risk of surgical error as well as strategies to prevent them
• Discuss proper reporting of medical errors
• Enumerate the elements that comprise root cause analysis
• Describe strategies patients, providers, systems can use to reduce the risk of medical errors and improve patient health and safety
• Describe what to do when things go wrong

• Summarize the following types of medical errors:
  1. medication errors
  2. handoff errors
  3. diagnostic errors
  4. healthcare acquired infections
  5. device associated infections
• List factors that increase the risk of the above medical errors
• Describe strategies to prevent the above medical errors

• Define Medical Error
• Discuss Medical Errors in the Context of Other Types of Error
• Illustrate the Scope of the Medical Error Problem
• List Serious Reportable Medical Events
• Define Key Events in the Field of Patient Safety
• Review the Epidemiology of Medical Error
• Describe the Taxonomy of Medical Error
• Identify commonly misdiagnosed conditions
• Identify populations of special vulnerability
• Review Types of Medical Errors
• Discuss Falls and Teamwork/Communication Errors and how to prevent them
• Summarize the following types of medical errors:
  1. medication errors
  2. handoff errors
  3. diagnostic errors
  4. healthcare acquired infections
  5. device associated infections
• List factors that increase the risk of the above medical errors
• Describe strategies to prevent the above medical errors