Medical Error Management 5-CME Credit
Fri, 21 Feb
|The Westin City Centre Bahrain
Register 5-CME Credit “Medical Error Management Workshop” approved by NHRA on Friday 21st February 2020. Identify types of medical errors, how to analyze and prevent medical error recurrence. Know the Bahrain Legislation concerned with Medical Error. Know more +973 66634241
Time & Location
21 Feb 2020, 8:00 AM
The Westin City Centre Bahrain, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman Highway Al Seef District, Manama, Bahrain
About the event
Hundreds of thousands of patients are harmed or die each year due to unsafe practices in
healthcare organizations. Unexpectedly, such unsafe healthcare practices have shifted up medical
error to be the third leading cause of death in the USA (251,454 patients die in hospitals each
year) as per published literature review in the BMJ in May 2016. Globally it is believed that medical
errors kill more people than HIV, Malaria, and Tuberculosis, combined as stated by the Patient
Safety Movement Foundation, USA.
This Medical Error Management Workshop is tailored to build strategy that identify, prevent and
mitigate medical errors and working with consequences. Participants will learn how to cultivate
patient safety culture in the healthcare organization, works toward excellence and finally know
the current legislation in Bahrain on medical error including the NHRA Policy for Reporting
Sentinel Event and the Supreme Council of Health Decision Number 95 for the year 2019
regarding investigation and notification of Medical Errors and Sentinel events.
OBJECTIVES AND TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
Attendees of the Medical Errors Management Workshop will learn how to:
1. Know the epidemiology of medical error and researches behind it
2. Identify definitions, types, causes and common venues of medical errors
3. Use Root Cause Analysis Tools to identify root causes of medical error
4. Learn strategy to prevent, mitigate and treat medical error by applying the 18 Patient
Safety Targets of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
5. Identify the common types of medication error and how to prevent them
6. Identify the different types of surgical error and learn how to prevent them
7. Identify different types of communication error and learn how to prevent them
8. Learn how to manage first victim, patient and family, and principles of disclosure
technique
9. Learn principles of second victim management
10. Learn the NHRA Incident/Adverse Event Reporting Policy V2, 2nd January 2018
11. Be familiar with the NHRA Sentinel Event Report Form
12. Learn the Supreme Council of Health Decision 95 for the year 2019 regarding
investigation and notification of Medical Errors and Sentinel events
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This activity is designated for all professionals working in any type of healthcare facility.
By attending this workshop both organization and participant will gain the following values:
Gaining Value for Organization
Avoid preventable claim
Positive Reputation
Client Trust
Client satisfaction
Improve business safety practices
Gaining Value for participants
Avoid Preventable Errors
Be a Risk Management, Safety
and/or quality champion
Do no harm
Practice with self confidence