Partnering to Prevent Diagnostic Error: Librarians on the Inside Track (MLA Webcast)
Location: UPMC McKeesport, 1500 5th Ave McKeesport, PA 15132
Kelly Building 2nd floor Auditorium
$3.00 parking fee
Date: March 13, 2013
Time: 2 – 3:30 pm Webcast
3:30 – 4:30 pm Roundtable Discussion
Registration (free*): http://nnlm.gov/mar/training/register.html?schedule_id=2089
*Please note the webcast is not available online to individual registrants
1.5 MLA CEs for attending webinar
1.5 MLA CEs for participating in roundtable discussion
Contact: Michelle Burda, mburda@pitt.edu / (412) 624-1589
Goal
The goal is to raise awareness and encourage participation by medical librarians in diagnostic error (Dx) prevention and mitigation: http://www.mlanet.org/education/distance_ed/spring13/
Objectives
- Explain what Dx error is, that it’s a subset of patient safety and an exceedingly critical problem
- Outline several roles, including collaborative roles, for librarians in Dx error prevention from solo to larger medical libraries
- Outline a range of activities for medical librarians to employ in their institutions to collaborate on Dx error awareness and reduction
- Reinforce the unique position of frontline librarians in their institutions to participate and collaborate with clinicians addressing Dx
Presenters
- Elaine Alligood, informationista and chief of library service, Knowledge, Information, and Library Services, VA, Boston Health Care System, Boston, MA
- Katherine Stemmer Frumento, AHIP, is the director of library services at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, CT.
- Lorri Zipperer is the principal at Zipperer Project Management, which focuses on patient safety content development, project direction, and knowledge sharing in health care.
Videotaped Presenter
- Mark L. Graber, MD, is a senior fellow at RTI International and professor emeritus of medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
