TRAnsparency
When do
outcomes
become public?
Degree of risk posed to
public safety informs
ICRC’s approach
A
s part of our Transparency Initiative, we
are providing more information about
how decisions are made. In this article, we
describe how the Inquiries, Complaints
and Reports Committee (ICRC) will use degree of risk
posed to patient safety to distinguish between those
cases that result in public undertakings and those cases
which result in non-public remedial agreements.
But how do we define risk? What factors do we look
at? To assist in its evaluation of cases, the ICRC has
developed a risk continuum. It is presented below:
Remedial Agreement (not Public)
In ordering a Remedial Agreement, the ICRC has determined that the issues identified during its investigation
are of low risk to the public. The ICRC has satisfied
itself that the physician only needs self-directed education in order to address the issues identified. The criteria
for such decisions are:
• Low risk;
• No significant history; and
• e physician agrees to education and to be reassessed.
Th
In such cases, the ICRC may advise of types of educational resources available, including relevant CPSO
policies. Which type of education the physician completes is solely up to the physician, but the ICRC’s
decisio