First Response, Last Defense - Quality Improvement Privileges

Are you really covering yourself when you conduct a sentinel event review? What about the quality improvement flags that are a daily part of our charting systems?

Legal privileges shield certain information from being used against you, but the attorney-client, work-product, and self-critical analysis privileges are poorly-understood and easy to misuse. There are opportunities here for protecting our agencies, our providers, and our data, but missteps can open the door to this information being used against us in civil litigation. Failure to properly protect this information can literally allow you to prove your own negligence in a court case.

This session will review concepts of civil litigation, evidence, discoverability, and exclusion, then look at state and national laws that govern this area. We will use real cases to illustrate how these privileges work, and help you develop best-practices for self-protection. This session is a must-see for all clinical managers, quality improvement personnel, and medical directors.