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Risk insights and patient safety issues in emergency medicine21 July 2016
Ursula Harrisson, Risk Advisor Medical Indemnity
Our work at VMIA
Our products and services
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Patient safety focus areas
Culture
Governance
Transparency Safer practice
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What is the problem?
What is the extent of the harm to patients?
• Australian Data (1995)
– 16.6% - experience an adverse event
– 51% - preventable
• European Data (2000/ 2005)
– 8% -12% - with the average – 10% Hospital admissions
– 50 – 70.2% are preventable
– If they could prevent…….
• 750,000 episodes of harm is inflicted due medical error per year
– Lead to…………..
• >3.2 million fewer days of hospitalization
• 260,000 preventable permanent disability
• 95,000 fewer deaths
Causes of death (USA)
All causes2,597K
Cancer585K
Heart
disease611K
COPD149K
Suicide
41K
Firearms
34K
Motor
vehicles
34K
Medical
error251K
Source: BMJ Publishing Group
Source: Daily Telegraph
Industry and inquest experience
What do claims tell us
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What do claims tell us?
Claims Data
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VMIA Medical Indemnity claims experience - last 10 closed years 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2015
Incurred Cost ($M) Claim numbers11
VMIA claims data from 2003-2013 (Emergency medicine Speciality)
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No.of Claims Total Cost of Claims
What are the Causal Factors?
Causal factor % of Claims
Diagnostic Error 55
Lack of appropriate supervision 30
Inadequate handover 24
Failure to adhere to clinical practice or hospital guidelines 17
Missed test results 16
Treatment delays 11
Medication error 6
What is the solution
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What is the solution?
Improving patient safety
Education and training
Communication
• Greater availability of ED consultants
• Review of high Risk Patients
• Improve Access to pharmacists and radiologist
• Electronic prescribing
System interventions
Guidelines and protocols
Culture and patient engagement
Engage your executive and board
What is the future
VMIA Resources and Publications
• Roundtables and Risk Insight publications on Patient Safety:
• https://www.vmia.vic.gov.au/learn/risk-insights#Safer
– Emergency Medicine Roundtable examines causes of medical indemnity
claims
– Junior doctors contribution to patient safety and quality improvement
– Missed test results – improving the diagnosis process
– Safer Diagnosis: improving the diagnostic process to reduce risks to
patients
– The deteriorating patient
• ISBAR - https://www.vmia.vic.gov.au/risk/risk-tools/isbar
• Clinical Risks information -
https://www.vmia.vic.gov.au/learn/clinical-risk
• Managing Risk - https://www.vmia.vic.gov.au/learn/managing-risk
Thank you