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Volume 14/Number 2 - 2008 - NEW!

• Ambulatory Surgical Centers -- Risk Management and Insurance Concerns
• Register today to Improve Patient Safety and Enhance Liability Protection
• Up-to-the Minute FDA Patient Safety Alerts
• Risky Business: Ending the Employer-Employee Relationship

Volume 14/Number 1 - 2008

• Supervision, Guidelines Key to Managing MLP Risk
• Risk Management Strategies for Both Physicians and MLPs
• MLP Performance Appraisal
• A Private Practice “Quality Improvement” Success Story

Volume 13/Number 37 - 2007

• Updated Guidelines Address Prevention of Second Stroke
• Cumulative Radiation Exposure: Experts urge physicians to consider the risks to patients
• Calculate Your MRI Suite Safety Score
• Physicians Urged to take Advantage of FDA’s Electronic Resources
• Clinical Challenge—Undiagnosed Stroke in a Psychiatric Patient
• Ask A Risk Manager

Volume 13/Number 35 - 2007

• Correcting Errors in the Electronic Medical Record
• Prostate Cancer Screening: Reducing Professional Liability Exposure
• Don’t Forget to Check Out Our Online CME Offerings at www.magmutal.com/risk.
• Informed Consent Which are better: general or procedure-specific forms?
• Ask A Risk Manager
• Mark Your Calendar for MAG Mutual’s Upcoming Risk Manager CME Programs Your Communication GPS: Reduce Medical Liability Exposure through Better Communication.

Volume 13/Number 34 - 2007

• Failure to Communicate: How One Radiology Practice Reduced Reporting Errors
• American College of Radiology Practice Guideline for Communication of Diagnostic Imaging Findings
• MAG Mutual’s Risk Management Online Resourcess
• Medical Record Data Theft — Again!
• Communication Processes Pivotal to Both Hospitalist & Primary Care Physicians

Volume 13/Number 33 - 2007

• Primary Care Physicians Still at Top of Colorectal Cancer List
• Announcing New Online Resources for Small Practices and the New Physician at www.magmutual.com/risk
• The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005, Implications for Health Care Providers
• Colorectal Cancer Screening Algorithm
• Communication Processes Pivotal to Both Hospitalist & Primary Care Physicians

Volume 12/Number 32 - 2006

• Early Detection of Melanoma – The Best Hope for a Cure
• Closed Claim Abstracts: Diagnosing a Malignant Melanoma
• Pain Management: Consider Using Clinical Pharmacy Expertise
• Limiting Risk with Sound Employee Record Keeping

Volume 12/Number 31 - 2006

• Closed Claim Abstracts: Antibiotics
• Overcoming Prescribing Errors – Not a Bitter Pill
• Closed Claim Abstracts: Inadequate Monitoring/Management of Glucocorticoids
• FDA Joins the ISMP to Campaign Against Error-Prone Medical Abbreviations
• Low-Cost, Common-Sense Initiatives to Reduce Errors in Prescription Writing
• Verbal or Telephone Orders

Volume 12/Number 30 - 2006

• Current Guidelines for Prevention of Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Emboli in the Inpatient Population
• HIGH RISK FACTORS FOR VTE IN HOSPITALIZED MEDICAL PATIENTS
• Authenticating the Electronic Medical Record
• WE EDUCATE: Look for new online CME programs

Volume 11/Number 29 - 2005

• Reflections of a Cardiologist: Errors of Omission in Diagnosing Acute Myocardial Infarction
• Closed Claim Abstract
• Workers’ Compensation in the Medical Office
  

EMTALA - Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act - Duties of On-Call Physicians

Discharging a Patient
(sample discharge letter included)

Volume 11/Number 28 - 2005

• Don’t Fumble the Handoff: Inpatient Providers, Specialists, Hospitalists, Intensivists
  and the Primary Care Physician: A medical care delivery system with benefits and complex risks
• 2 Case Studies
• Developing Transcultural Competency
  in the Treatment of Hispanic/Latino Patients

Volume 11/Number 27 - 2005

• Sample Medications: Some Ideas to Promote Safety
• 3 Case Studies
• Release of Medical Information Checklist for Compliance
• HIPAA FAQ’s