Overview
Actor Dennis Quaid’s family experienced a medication issue with his children. Watch the interviewLinks to an external site. by 60 Minutes host Steve Kroft with Dennis Quaid (about 14 minutes long). The transcript of the interview is also available online, as is closed captioning.
Then, please answer the following questions:
- Identify the adverse events that took place in this situation.
- What preventive measures should have been taken that might have prevented the adverse events in the first place?
- Based on what you read, did the Quaids have cause to bring legal action against the hospital? What did they do instead, and do you agree with their approach?
- As this case unfolded what role do you think the hospital’s risk management and quality improvement departments may have played? Thinking of the tools used to support risk management such as incident reports and health records, would an incident report have been completed in this situation and how would the twins’ health records been handled?