How often are physicians placed in a situation where they have the time, relationship, trust and information to identify the root cause of a chronic illness? How often are they positioned to truly ...

Just as risk assessment is the bedrock for an effective compliance program, root cause analysis (“RCA”) similarly underpins successful remediation of compliance violations. The DOJ’s March 2023 ...

The National Patient Safety Foundation has published guidelines developed to help healthcare organizations improve the way they investigate medical errors, adverse events and near misses. The ...

Process improvement experts use root-cause analysis (RCA) to evaluate and identify the reason for the cause of a defect in an effort to isolate the one major area adversely impacting and contributing ...