Candello Releases Benchmarking Report on Documentation Risks
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This week, Candello released their 2024 Benchmarking Report entitled For the Record: The Effect of Documentation on Defensibility and Patient Safety. The report was written to provide physicians, APPs and nurses with practical insights and recommendations to improve their documentation practices and reduce their personal malpractice risk and enhance the safety of their patients. While the report is primarily geared toward doctors and mid-level providers, it could be beneficial for anyone who is responsible for managing documentation.
Here are some key findings of the report:
- 20% of cases involve at least one documentation failure.
- Documentation issues more than double the odds that a case will close with an indemnity payment.
- Common documentation errors that significantly increase payment odds include alterations to the medical record, insufficient documentation of clinical findings, rationale, and informed consent.
Since 2011, MIEC has partnered with Candello to provide analysis and benchmarking of claims data and insight into the drivers of medical malpractice claims. Candello maintains a growing database of over 460,000 national MPL claims.
The benchmarking report can be downloaded here:
For the Record: The Effect of Documentation on Defensibility and Patient Safety