Alexandra Brown, MD, Chief Medical Officer, ASCP, Chicago, IL
Cody Carter, MD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA 
Sachin Gupta, PhD, MBA, MLS(ASCPi)MB, LSSBB, CPHQ, Scientific Director, Center for Quality and Patient Safety (CQPS), ASCP, Chicago, IL
Matthew Rosenbaum, MD, Staff Pathologist, Director, Quality & Patient Safety, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Dana Warfield, MPH, Director, Quality and Regulatory, Pathology and Clinical Laboratories, NYU Langone Health, NY, NY 

CME/CMLE Credit: 1.0
Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour
Format: Online Educational Activity

Physician Competencies: Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, Practice-Based Learning and Improvement, Professionalism, Systems-Based Practice 

Accreditation Statement: The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).

Credit Designation Statement: The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Instructions

To claim CME/CMLE credit for the exercise, do the following:

1. Review the Technical Considerations.
2. Review the Faculty Disclosures.
3. Click Go to Course to view an overview of the modules in this course.
4. Click Access to begin the course.
5. Review the Educational Activity.
6. Submit the course Evaluation.
7. Enter the maximum number of credits offered and click Claim CME to register credit.

Faculty Disclosures
The faculty have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose. 

Technical Considerations

Release Date: 9/18/2023  
Review Date:
Expiration Date: 12/31/2026  

• Define medical errors based on the Institute of Medicine’s definition of the term

• Describe the different types of errors that can occur

• Categorize the different classes of errors that can occur in the workplace

• Define a connection error and how it relates to communication problems

• Contrast different examples of communication problems

• Analyze the consequence of communication problems and how they relate to Patient Safety

• Contrast different examples of pathway errors

• Analyze the consequences of pathway errors and how they relate to Patient Safety

• Define Human Performance as well as its attributes

• Explain Active and Latent Errors as they relate to Human Performance

• Recognize the classification of Cognitive, Organizational and Physical Failures

• Describe examples of Human Performance errors in Pathology

• Describe how Biologic Variation affects Patient Safety

• Explain how Patient Preference may affect Patient Safety

• Define the Levels of Care

• Describe how organizations affect the quality of care through information flow

• Explain how staffing levels for an organization can affect patient safety

• Define technical errors as they relate to patient safety

• Analyze ways to measure technical errors

• Discuss frequency of technical errors

• Describe the common sources for pathology related technical errors

• Analyze the impact of technical errors

• Apply standard lab policy and procedures as well as variability’s in inter-laboratory policy and procedures

• Demonstrate the specific elements of document control that are required by the CAP

• Describe CAP suggested practices for record-keeping compliance with proficiency testing

• Explain the Joint Commission policy regarding sentinel events

• Define latent and active failures along with their respective categories

• Demonstrate practices that can reduce latent and active failures in your laboratory