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Clinical Care | Risk Management | Senior Living

Claims Case Study: Failure to Ensure Safety from Elopement

An 85-year-old woman with moderate dementia lived in a senior living memory care wing for three years. She had a history of wandering in and out…
Clinical Care | Risk Management

Claims Case Study: Failure to Follow Pre-Op Procedures

A 59-year-old Hispanic man presented to his gastroenterologist with nausea and abdominal pain for a month. The patient’s past medical history was significant for hypertension, diabetes,…
Clinical Care | Medical Records | Risk Management

Claims Case Study: Failure to Follow Appropriate EMR Processes

A 48-year-old diabetic patient presented to the emergency department (ED) with complaints of worsening severe back pain. She had recently undergone an eight-week course of vancomycin…
Advanced Practice Providers (APP) | Risk Management

Claims Case Study: APP Inappropriate Follow Up of Symptoms

A 26-year-old patient presented to his primary care office after two emergency department visits for bloody diarrhea over a two-week period. The patient’s chart showed that…
Advanced Practice Providers (APP) | Risk Management

Claims Case Study: APP Failure to Monitor Patient Care

A patient presented to a medical practice with complaints of shortness of breath, chest pain, and frequent burping. For four months, he was treated by one…
Advanced Practice Providers (APP) | Risk Management

Claims Case Study: APP Failure to Diagnose

A 52-year-old woman went to a walk-in clinic complaining primarily of a headache and requested a physical exam. Unbeknownst to the physician assistant (PA) that was…
Clinical Care | Risk Management

Claims Case Study: Communication Breakdown in Management of Post-Op Care 

Details on how an OB-GYN’s failure to properly address post-operative patient complaints and properly mark the urgency for subsequent testing resulted in adverse patient outcomes. 
Clinical Care | Risk Management

Claims Case Study: The Importance of Documenting Specialty Consult Request Follow-Up

Details on how two hospitalists avoided undue liability following a patient’s death by maintaining adequate records of specialty consultation requests.
Clinical Care | Risk Management

Claims Case Study: High Risk OB Patient

Details on how physicians’ failure to properly coordinate and document patient care resulted in fetal death, and ways to avoid a similar outcome.