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Published March 16, 2006
The CAP, in conjunction with the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Leadership
Conference, is co-sponsoring Creating a Culture of Patient Safety through Risk Management,
a one-day, hands-on workshop focused on identifying
opportunities to improve patient safety through risk management.
Eligible participants may apply for the following continuing education credits:
- 7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
- 7.5 ACCENT® credit hours and
- 8.0 PACE® approved continuing education contact hours
The workshop is designed for clinicians, pathologists, and laboratory professionals,
as well as other health care providers, manufacturers, and government representatives
interested in implementing a process to identify hazards associated with their area of
specialty, estimate and evaluate the risks, control these risks, and monitor the results.
Attendees will:
- Review current risk management approaches.
- Identify potential hazards, estimate the associated risks, determine how to control risks and monitor the results.
- Understand the ISO risk management process used by IVD manufacturers and its benefits for labs.
- Evaluate risk management tools including, process mapping, failure mode and effects analysis, fault trees and HACCP.
- Present two risk management case studies and methods for their implementation.
Learn more by visiting the CLSI web site, or by reviewing the workshop agenda
(PDF, 18 K).
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