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A podcast focusing on health care quality, experience and affordability trends and solutions, offering some first steps toward improving quality challenges in your organization. Dr. Timothy Morgenthaler, M.D. and co-host Sheri Nemec, M.S. invite Mayo Clinic experts to share insights about innovative work to drive excellence in quality, safety, experience, and affordability, and to explore some of the biggest challenges in healthcare quality. Tune in to learn more about #MayoKeyintoquality
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Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Incidental findings – developing processes to ensure follow up
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Guest: Susan Cullinan, M.D. @Susan Cullinan
Guest: Joe Nienow
Host: Timothy Morgenthaler, M.D. @DrTimMorg
Lack of systems and processes that support the management of incidental findings can have a negative impact to patient outcomes. These incidental findings are far more common than one might guess. About 1/3 of all CTs performed in an emergency department will have at least 1 incidental finding. Most of them will be benign and of no importance. But some represent an opportunity to intervene early and prevent bad outcomes from happening to patients. Some studies show that only about 10% of these incidental findings make their way into the dismissal summaries, and even fewer receive follow-up. In this podcast we talk with two Mayo Clinic champions who have been working on this problem—how to ensure the right follow-up on incidental findings.
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