Resource Library
The Resource Library is a compendium of consent forms, risk management recommendations, sample documents, articles, and other risk management materials to promote ophthalmic patient safety and reduce liability. Contact riskmanagement@omic.com with questions.
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Apr 4, 2016
| Consent Form
Apr 1, 2022
| Sample Letter or Form
Follow up on all missed, cancelled, or rescheduled ROP appointments, including no-shows, and send this letter if unable to reach the parents to schedule the exam.
Apr 1, 2022
| Recommendation
This ROP Safety Net Toolkit addresses ROP care provided on an outpatient basis. It contains sample protocols, which may need to be customized, and refers to ROP clinical care guidelines.
Apr 1, 2022
| Sample Letter or Form
Complete and sign this letter after the first outpatient ROP exam.
Jun 18, 2024
| Sample Protocol
The protocol listed in these materials is based on the Policy Statement "Screening Examination of Premature Infants for Retinopathy of Prematurity" and the Joint Technical Report "Telemedicine for Evaluation of ROP." The protocol incorporates both required conditions of coverage with OMIC as well as risk management recommendations which individual physicians may adapt to their own system and institutional policies and procedures.
Mar 8, 2022
| Consent Form
Aug 15, 2018
| Recommendation
This document will present the obstacles to safe ROP care, OMIC's ROP claims experience, and our risk management recommendations.
Jan 1, 2023
| Recommendation
OMIC first developed and distributed ROP Safety Net protocols in 2006. Our experience in helping ophthalmologists implement these patient safety measures has convinced us that liability for ROP care can only be decreased if ophthalmologists work closely with neonatologists, nurses in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs), hospitals, and parents. We accordingly developed sample protocols—our ROP Safety Net Toolkit—for both office- and hospital-based care.
Jun 26, 2019
| Risk Management Bulletin
The American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Ophthalmology revised its Policy Statement (PS)1 on ROP screening late last year. We revised the clinical tables in our ROP Safety Net accordingly.
May 9, 2022
| Risk Management Bulletin
Changes to ROP Safety Net clinical tables and recommendations based on a 2021 release of The International Classification of Retinopathy of Prematurity, Third Edition1 (ICROP3).
Apr 1, 2022
| Sample Letter or Form
This spreadsheet can be used to record important birth and exam information about each ROP exam and treatment performed to ensure that all infants are tracked until they meet end-of-acute screening criteria.
Apr 1, 2022
| Sample Letter or Form
If the infant needs to be transferred to another hospital for non-ROP care, use this letter to notify parents of the importance of further ROP exams.
Apr 1, 2022
| Sample Letter or Form
Notify parents/caregivers that their baby is being transferred to another hospital for treatment of ROP.
Mar 10, 2022
| Recommendation
Concerns about IVAV both as primary or salvage therapy have been addressed in the literature and at eye society meetings. In addition, many questions are currently being studied and debated. Despite these uncertainties, when faced with aggressive or refractive ROP, ophthalmologists at times feel there is no other prudent choice but to treat ROP with IVAV. This document will address those concerns, and provide risk management recommendations specific to the use of anti-VEGF agents “off-label” for the treatment of ROP.
Dec 22, 2015
| Case Study
Only one postoperative examination occurred prior to proceeding with cataract surgery on the second eye. If another examination had taken place prior to the second surgery, it is possible that some vision loss may have been detected, thus leading to further exploration and cancellation of the second surgery.
Aug 31, 2016
| Consent Form
Feb 13, 2020
| Consent Form
Nov 21, 2014
| Consent Form
Jan 12, 2023
| Article
OMIC automated our society partner discounts and made them easier to obtain.
Jul 16, 2014
| Case Study
There was definite liability in this case but who would be held responsible? The physicians could have avoided liability for this injury by documenting the event in the operative note and filing an incident report with the hospital following the procedure.
Nov 11, 2012
| Sample Letter or Form
This sample form can be used to document salient information regarding the surgery.
Oct 12, 2024
| Article
The aftershocks associated with adverse medical events, such as a bad outcome, or with a subsequent lawsuit may vary in severity.
Oct 31, 2024
| Consent Form
May 9, 2023
| Consent Form
Apr 14, 2020
| Consent Form
Apr 16, 2017
| Article
Telephonic exchanges can occur between the ophthalmologist and other physicians involved in the care, but most physician-to-physician calls come from the Emergency Department (ED). These calls raise a number of concerns.
Apr 16, 2017
| Case Study
To meet the standard of care, an ophthalmologist must examine a child who has experienced a drastic visual decrease following trauma. The crux of this case was whether the ophthalmologist was informed that a drastic visual decrease had occurred.
May 9, 2019
| Recommendation
Each day, countless patients call their ophthalmologist to report problems and seek advice. This telephone screening toolkit will provide guidance on how to ensure safe telephone care during the day and after office hours.
Oct 13, 2024
| Video
Learn about liability issues and risk management recommendations for telephone screening.
Oct 23, 2020
| Recommendation
This resource provides guidance and sample letters for the steps needed to terminate the relationship for financial reasons.
Oct 23, 2020
| Recommendation
This resource provides sample letters and guidance to help minimize the risk of patient harm and allegations of patient abandonment when terminating care.
Oct 23, 2020
| Sample Letter or Form
Notify the patient in advance that the physician-patient relationship will be terminated. Send this letter if the reason for termination is other than violence or non-payment.
Oct 23, 2020
| Sample Letter or Form
Notify the patient in advance that the physician-patient relationship will be terminated. Send this letter if the reason for termination is due to the patient's violence.
Dec 19, 2019
| Risk Management Bulletin
Oct 12, 2024
| Article
It is not uncommon that the first notice of a claim against a physician is an intimidating letter from the patient’s attorney threatening a lawsuit while at the same time offering a settlement. Much of what takes place during the course of litigation causes alarm, anger and anxiety, leading to what is commonly referred to as “the malpractice stress syndrome.”
Sep 6, 2016
| Sample Protocol
To ensure that the correct drug and dose are injected into the correct eye every time, the ophthalmologist needs to lead a time out before each injection. A time out provides the opportunity to confirm that the patient, medical record, and ophthalmologist are in agreement.
May 6, 2024
| Recommendation
Instituting a time-out process is known to increase patient safety by reducing wrong site, wrong procedure, wrong medication, and wrong patient errors.
Aug 28, 2024
| Risk Management Bulletin
Instituting a time-out process is known to increase patient safety by reducing wrong site, wrong procedure, wrong medication, and wrong patient errors.
Feb 12, 2020
| Consent Form
Aug 4, 2020
| Consent Form
Feb 13, 2020
| Consent Form
Nov 7, 2024
| Risk Management Bulletin
If you provide on-call duty to an emergency room (ER), it is important to be aware of your duties under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA).
Jun 14, 2023
| Risk Management Bulletin
OMIC Risk Management clarifies its position on the use of biosimilar medications for ophthalmic care.
Mar 28, 2022
| Consent Form
Aug 10, 2021
| Video
In a 2-minute video, Dr. Pauline Merrill shares her tips for reducing the risk of error when administering intravitreal injections. A time out provides the opportunity to confirm that the patient, medical record, and ophthalmologist are in agreement.
Dec 9, 2020
| Consent Form
Oct 9, 2014
| Consent Form
Apr 15, 2016
| Article
When we presented the data from our study of diagnostic error at the 2015 OMIC Forum, we asked the ophthalmologists in the audience to vote on what factor contributed the most to diagnostic errors. The choices were: atypical presentations (patient factors), physician’s cognitive process (physician factors), failure to follow up on test results (system issues), or poor communication among healthcare providers (system issues). Most ophthalmologists voted for the two types of system issues.
Dec 22, 2015
| Article
Young ophthalmologists often join established practices. Non-physician staff at these practices may include licensed team members, such as registered nurses and optometrists, or unlicensed staff, such as technicians and assistants. Young ophthalmologists have called our Hotline worried about over-delegation as well as puzzled when their delegation decisions are seen as risky.
Aug 14, 2022
| Article
Think about how you employ heuristics in working up patients. Heuristic thinking is based on past experience, and uses mental shortcuts, intuition, and “rule of thumb” to solve problems and make judgments quickly and efficiently. It’s generally used when physicians see a patient with a familiar set of symptoms that fit a recognizable diagnosis.