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Chasing Zero: Winning The War On Healthcare Harm
This program is available for credit until July 7, 2012

Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Public Health and Discovery Channel CME. The University of Virginia School of Medicine and Public Health is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Virginia School of Medicine and Public Health designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Program Overview
Discovery Channel CME has assembled a panel of medical experts to advise physicians on the adoption of National Quality Forum (NQF) Endorsed Safe Practices for Better Healthcare. This program reviews the need for Safe Practices to mitigate harm caused by errors in healthcare organizations, highlights recent medical errors caused by system failures, and offers guidance for implementation of Safe Practices. This CME focuses on Safe Practices to engage leadership, deploy programs for disclosure of adverse medical events and care of our frontline caregivers, medication management and pharmacist leadership. In addition to the Discovery documentary/video clips, four of the National Quality Forum Safe Practices and two journal articles should be reviewed for this program.

Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

• Describe baseline knowledge of patient safety principles and how some quality organizations have managed to implement programs that are "chasing zero" medical errors.
• Review National Quality Forum Safe Practice 1: Culture of Safety Leadership Structure and Systems and reasons for why hospitals need to implement such programs.
• Describe how National Quality Forum Safe Practice 7: Disclosure has been implemented in quality organizations and the reasons for its necessity.
• Review Safe Practice 8: Care of the Caregiver and specifications for implementation.
• Explain the importance of establishing Safe Practice 18: Pharmacist Leadership Structures and Systems.

Target Audience
Physician, nurses, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, governance board leaders and administrators, hospital administrators, infection control professionals, patient safety officers, quality managers.

Faculty Disclosure Information
As a sponsor accredited by the ACCME, it is the policy of the University of Virginia School of Medicine to require the disclosure of the existence of any significant financial interest or any other commercial supporter(s) of this activity or the manufacturer(s) of any commercial products(s) discussed in an educational presentation. Detailed disclosure will be made during the program.

Acknowledgement of Commercial Support
This program is made possible by educational grants from CareFusion, AORN and TMIT.