Publications & Resources

To avoid adverse events related to direct oral anticoagulants, The Joint Commission has released a Sentinel Event Alert with specific actions for physicians and other healthcare providers in all clinical settings.

Researchers have found New York State’s mandated “protocolized sepsis care was associated with a greater decrease in sepsis mortality” compared with states without these regulations.

Researchers say that over “100,000 Americans die or are permanently disabled each year due to medical diagnoses that initially miss conditions or are wrong or delayed” and that “three major disease categories account for nearly three-fourths of all serious harms from diagnostic errors.”

MLMIC policyholders and their staff have exclusive access to the MLMIC Resource Center, which can access a wide variety of current healthcare reference materials on your behalf and promptly provide these research findings to you.

The July 2019 edition of MLMIC’s Case Review includes case studies highlighting how questions related to communication and informed consent impacted two separate medical liability cases in New York.

To address the shortage of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) Live, a drug used in treatment of bladder cancer, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) has issued interim infection control guidance permitting providers to treat multiple patients from the same single-use vial of BCG.

New courses from the CDC are part of a free curriculum that includes over 40 training modules designed to address both the technical and foundational elements of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention.

According to new research published in JAMA, deaths from falls tripled among the elderly between 2000 and 2016, and these falls cost an estimated $50 billion in medical care annually. Fall prevention strategies are recommended for adults older than 65 years.

MLMIC has released a new edition of The Albany Report to help physicians, dentists and other healthcare providers understand the impact of the most recent Legislative session on their practice in New York State.

Ensuring health information technology-related events are resolved and incorporate effective solutions should be a continued focus area for healthcare systems.