COPIC's newsletter (for states outside of Colorado) that focuses on risk management guidelines with articles that offer useful, practical insight. Issues prior to 2018 were "Nebraska Copiscope" editions.
Doctors Criticizing Other Doctors • Talking with Patients About Other Clinicians’ Errors • High-Alert Medications List from ISMP • Chronic Pain Management Toolkit
Informed Consent: What Patients Need to Know • Physicians Spend Nearly 11% of Their Careers with an Open, Unresolved Claim • Surgical Provider Preventable Conditions
Association Between EHR Use and Medical Liability Claims • Legal Protections: Care Under Emergency & Volunteer Circumstances • Caring for Breast Cancer Survivors • Childbirth Complications • Drug Alerts from PDR Network
Physician On-Call Obligations: EMTALA • Barriers to the Use of Perioperative Briefings and Checklists • COPIC Revises “Against Medical Advice” Sample Form
FAQs About Importing Prescription Drugs • Risk Management for Ultrasonography During Pregnancies • Conservative Prescribing to Reduce Medication Errors • Improving Radiologist and Clinician Communication
FAQs Regarding Occurrence Reporting • “Red Flags”/ Words of Caution • Giving Advice Over the Telephone in the ED • Drug Alerts from HCNN • Terminating a Physician-Patient Relationship
Risk Issues in Infectious Disease • Social Networking and Medicine • AMA Policy: Professionalism in the Use of Social Media • Your Most Difficult Patient • How to Positively Emerge from a Lawsuit
10 Strategies for Reducing Medication Errors • Capnography for Moderate Sedations: New Standards for Basic Anesthesia Monitoring • Making Urgent Care Safer • Urgent Care Claims
10 Ways to Avoid Litigation • Importing Devices from Outside the U.S. • Updated Medical E-Risk Considerations • Undertaking TOLCA • How Cognitive Errors Affect Diagnosis
