Proactive Reduction of Outpatient Malpractice: Increasing Safety, Efficiency, and Satisfaction

Participating practices will be coached to perform rapid, small-scale tests of change and to iteratively improve performance of problem-prone care systems, as well as to imbed simple measurement in routine daily work streams to guide improvement efforts. The sixteen intervention practices will serve as realistic research laboratories to help advance malpractice risk prevention and patient safety in specific areas by refining tools and strategies for smaller practices.