Preliminary Agenda
 

Patient Safety at the Clinical Interface

Holiday Inn O'Hare International, Rosemont, Illinois
Thursday, November 30, 2000 (8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)


8:00-8:10 a.m. Welcome and Charge to the Group
8:10-8:30 a.m.

Plenary Session — Preliminary Research Agenda for Patient Safety: The Results of the National Summit

- presentation by Dr. Gregg Meyer

8:30-8:50 a.m. General Comments from Attendees
8:50-9:00 a.m. Move to Breakout Rooms
9:00-10:30 a.m. Facilitated Breakout Sessions on Research Topics

1 - What do clinicians and managers most want to know about the epidemiology of errors to help focus their efforts to improve safety?

2 - What do clinicians and managers see as the greatest opportunities for research to develop and test strategies for reducing risk?

3 - What are the most critical research questions to enable effective training of clinicians and managers in improving safety?

4 - To help us move beyond the hospital setting in which most safety research has been focused, what do clinicians see as the most critical non-hospital settings in which to do research and what do they want to know?

 

10:30-10:45 a.m. Break
10:45-12:00 p.m. Return to Facilitated Breakout Sessions from Above
12:00-2:00 p.m. Working Lunch — Patient/Consumer Research Agenda: What should patients/consumers know and what role is there for clinicians and clinical organizations in providing that information?
2:00-2:20 p.m. Break and Move Back to Breakout Rooms
2:20-3:20 p.m. Breakouts Concentrating on Implementation Issues

1 - What do clinicians and managers want to know about communicating with patients and families about risk and errors?

2 - What do clinicians and managers need to know about effective actions when a safety hazard has been identified? What level of evidence do clinicians and managers require before labeling a patient safety initiative "an effective solution"? How do we assess medical error "solutions"?

 

3:20-3:30 p.m. Move Back to Plenary Session
3:30-4:30 p.m. Plenary Discussion — Where Do We Go From Here?
4:30 p.m. Adjourn

 

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