Using Malpractice Claim Data to Identify Risks in Audiology Practice

Presenter: Jennifer Flynn, CPHRM

CEUs: 0.1 AAA CEUs

Duration: 60 minutes

Instructional Level: Beginner

Program Focus: Knowledge

This session will address audiologists’ most common professional liability concerns, including emerging risks and ways that audiologists can protect themselves from liability exposures. Utilizing HPSO/CNA’s database of audiology closed professional liability claims, we can identify liability patterns and trends, we can highlight adverse events that resulted in financial loss or expenses, and we focus on the types of situations most likely to have serious adverse consequences for patients and create liability exposures for audiologists. Using this information, audiologists can examine their own current practices in relation to the claims and losses experienced by their peers.

Learning Outcomes: 

1. Identify three top malpractice allegations made against audiologists in malpractice lawsuits.
2. Define total incurred amounts to defend audiologists in malpractice lawsuits.
3. Identify key risk management tools that audiologists can incorporate into their practices to help improve patient safety, enhance quality of care, and reduce risk and error.

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