AADA Policy

• The AADA supports the passage of state legislation and/or the implementation of state regulations calling for the mandatory reporting of adverse patient incidents.

• The AADA supports state legislation and/or state regulation to ensure that adequate privacy protections are adopted along with reporting regulations so that members and other office-based physicians are not made vulnerable to malpractice challenges unnecessarily.

• Basic information in adverse incident reports pertaining to the procedure, setting, type of anesthesia utilized, physician specialty, and outcome should be made available to appropriate researchers.

• The AADA only supports medical office regulations that are fair, reasonable and appropriate and based on factual medical evidence.

Message Points

• Patient safety is the dermatologist’s top priority and procedures performed in the dermatologist’s office have an excellent safety record.

• The AADA supports state legislation or regulation that requires mandatory reporting of adverse incidents – complications that might result in injury or even death after a medical procedure – so that these medical complications can be identified and analyzed.

• The AADA believes that analyzing and understanding these adverse incidents can help prevent them in the future, thus improving patient safety.

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