Navigating Privileges, Protections and Reporting Requirements
Materials from the August 6, 2009 teleconference
White paper describing the interaction of California law and the PSO Patient Safety Work Product protections [white paper is under revision and will be reposted soon.
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Slides from the August 6, 2009 CHPSO teleconference.
Flow chart describing a prototype Patient Safety Evaluation System.
Example consent language for the release of root cause analyses to the Joint Commission:
Physician acknowledges that from time to time hospital conducts root cause analyses of occurrences in the hospital for the purpose of reducing errors and improving individual and systemic performance.
These root cause analyses are sometimes communicated to hospital accrediting bodies in furtherance of quality improvement.
Physician consents to communication of root cause analysis results to hospital accrediting bodies, with the understanding and subject to the condition that such accrediting body may not further disclose this information.
Please contact Rory Jaffe (rjaffe@calhospital.org) if you have questions about policies and procedures for a Patient Safety Evaluation System.
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