Diagnostic Errors: How They Influence Quality Metrics? How Can We Decrease Them?

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ONLINECMECNE

Instructions

Monday, July 29, 2019, 8:00 AM - Thursday, June 30, 2022, 11:59 PM, Online


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.75 hours), Non-Physician (Attendance) (0.75 hours), Nursing Contact Hour(s) (0.75 hours)

Administrative databases are used to create billing codes, calculate true population based rates of disease and to conduct quality improvement endeavors. The accuracy of administrative data sets for capturing key risk factors and outcomes continues to be assessed and monitored. The primary knowledge gap is understanding how errors in medical record documentation lead to errors in billing, rate calculations and interpretation of quality improvement efforts.

The MEDNAX Center for Research, Education, Quality and Safety is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The MEDNAX Center for Research, Education, Quality and Safety designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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The MEDNAX Center for Research, Education, Quality and Safety is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. (#PO258)

The MEDNAX Center for Research, Education, Quality and Safety designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 0.75 nursing contact hour(s). Participants should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

There is no commercial support for this educational activity.