TSG – Proven Systems Reduce Medical Errors and Clinical Negligence Litigation

‘Medical error’ is a significant national issue. TSG now offers a proven system to reduce errors and the incidence of clinical negligence litigation. Borrowing time-tested systems for error reduction from the aviation and other risk sensitive industries, TSG has created ‘Risk and Safety’ initiatives in several areas of medical practice.

The Sullivan Group has created a system of risk and medical error reduction that has resulted in dramatic reductions in the number of clinical negligence cases for doctors and major medical organisations. One medical organisation in the US recently removed over $30,000,000 (£16,887,000 approximately) in reserves due to the reduction in emergency medicine clinical negligence claims over the last three years. Yet another large American hospital group, with over one million annual patient visits, has dropped its medical clinical negligence claims by over 50% over a three-year period. Patient safety and medical error reduction are critical issues in today’s practice environment. The Sullivan Group is leading the way in this important endeavour.

A New Paradigm in Healthcare Risk Management and Patient Safety

The Sullivan Group has created a proven system to reduce medical risk and promote safety: web-based standardised risk and safety education, intelligent medical record tools for doctors and nurses, and a web-based clinical & system performance audit. The airline industry utilises this approach to create safe air travel. The Sullivan Group utilises this approach to change clinical behaviour, reduce errors, and save lives. The system is built on evidence-based medicine, recognised best practices, and our proprietary medical error and adverse outcome database.

More than 450 US emergency departments have used TSG’s integrated system to realise significant improvements in performance. The system solution improves patient safety, reduces medical errors, enhances practitioner performance, and helps medical staff create defensible medical records.

HCA, one of the largest hospital groups in the world, is amongst TSG’s US clients, and the VP of Risk and Insurance, James Hinton, credits TSG’s risk management services to HCA’s 38% reduction in emergency department related claims from 2001 to 2004. That trend continues through 2005. Read a description of the HCA program as published in Business Insurance in April of 2005.

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Anchored by Experience

TSG founder, Dr. Daniel Sullivan, MD, JD, FACEP, is a board-certified emergency doctor with more than 20 years’ emergency medical experience. Dr. Sullivan’s education and experience as both a medical practitioner and attorney has made him an expert in patient safety and risk management. In his ongoing quest to improve healthcare and limit clinical negligence litigation, Dr. Sullivan assembled an outstanding team of medical, risk reduction and IT professionals dedicated to perfecting a system solution that reduces medical error and improves patient safety. The EM Risk Initiative is the product of many years of planning, research and testing, and is currently proving its effectiveness in more than 450 US Emergency Medicine Departments nationwide.

For more information on how to implement the EM Risk Initiative in your emergency department, please contact us.