Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: March 8, 2023
SCCM Product Code: DEPOD23A
ACE expiration date: March 31, 2024
Estimated time for activity completion: 0.5 hour for podcast

• Restate the difference between a diagnostic delay and diagnostic error
• List factors that contribute to diagnostic errors
• Discuss how the electronic health records contribute to diagnostic errors and delays

• Advanced practice nurses
• Anesthesiologists
• Clinical nurse specialists
• In-training practitioners
• Nurses
• Nurse educators
• Nurse managers
• Pharmacists
• Physicians
• Physician assistants
• Surgeons

This online activity will provide critical care practitioners the ability to apply their improved knowledge on the causes of diagnostic errors and delays as well as ways to mitigate these.

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) supports recommendations that will promote lifelong learning through continuing education. SCCM promotes activities that encourage the highest quality in education that will enhance knowledge, competence, or performance in critical care practice. This activity will meet the following competencies: 

• Medical knowledge
• Interpersonal communication skills
• Practice-based improvement and improvement

You can access the course materials, complete your evaluation; and claim your ACE credit by logging in to your MySCCM account with your SCCM Customer ID and password, then clicking on the icon for the course you are enrolled in under the MyLearning tab. If needed, you can click "Forgot my password" to reset your secure password.  

Physicians:

Accreditation Statement: The Society of Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Designation Statement: The Society of Critical Care Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.

The ACCME credits that physicians earn from this activity will be submitted to ACCME’s CME Passport, a free, centralized web application where you can create a personalized account to view, track, and generate transcripts of your reported ACCME credit. Visit www.cmepassport.org to create your account.

Nurses: The CMSS Mitigating Diagnostic Delays and Errors activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to .5 contact hours.  

Pharmacists: The Society of Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This enduring educational activity provides up to .5 contact hours of continuing education credit.  

PLEASE NOTE: To credit must be claimed by the following dates:

SCCM reports to a continuing pharmacy education (CPE) tracking service, CPE Monitor, which will authenticate and store data for completed CPE units received by pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. The tracking system will make CPE data for each participant available to the state boards of pharmacy where the participant is licensed or registered. After CPE units are processed by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will be able to log in to a comprehensive electronic profile to access information about their completed CPE. 

Physician Assistants:
The American Academy of Physicians Assistants (AAPA) accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 0.5 Category 1 credits for completing this activity. 

This podcast is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through a grant program administered by the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.

To provide due process in the evaluation and mediation of grievances concerning ACE activities, this Grievance Procedures Policy was developed. Grievances may concern, but are not limited to, the awarding of credit for individual participation and/or registration fees issues.

• A written complaint or grievance should be submitted to the Education Department.
• The Education Department will attempt to resolve the grievance of the complainant.
• If the initial response is unsatisfactory to the complainant, the matter will be referred to the CEO/EVP for action.
• If the response from the CEO/EVP is unsatisfactory to the complainant, the matter will be referred to the SCCM Executive Committee. The ruling of the Executive Committee will be final.

The content of this activity has been peer reviewed and has been approved for compliance. The faculty and contributors have indicated the following financial relationships, which have been resolved through an established conflict-of-interest resolution process and have stated that these reported relationships will not have any impact on their ability to provide unbiased content.

Planners:
Mary Jo C. Grant, ACNP, PhD, FAAN
PICU Nurse Practitioner/Researcher
Primary Children’s Hospital
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Susan R. Lacey, PhD, RN, CNL, FAAN
Associate Director of Quality and Research
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, IL, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Roohi Ali, MPH
Project Manager
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, IL, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Faculty:
Mary Jo C. Grant, ACNP, PhD, FAAN
PICU Nurse Practitioner/Researcher
Primary Children’s Hospital
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose