Attendees of our seventh annual JADPRO Live conference in Seattle are settling back into their routines after a fun-filled conference packed with practice-changing information. Over 1,500 advanced practitioners and other oncology-focused attendees enjoyed 4 days of networking and clinical updates with expert faculty. If you missed this year's conference, there's always next year, when we'll be meeting in Minneapolis. Be on the lookout for selected presentations from this year's meeting, both here in our journal and on our website. PATIENT SAFETY : The opening panel discussion at JADPRO Live, When Things Don't Go as Planned: The Role of Candor in Patient Safety Programs, was especially relevant to me. Panel discussants included Katie Maletich, MBA, BSN, RN, Brandelyn Bergstedt, Dr. Thomas Gallagher, and Stephen Lovell. As we all know, medical errors and mistakes happen at every practice, but we try diligently not to make them. Yet how we handle an error, as discussed by the panel, can lead to profoundly different patient and family outcomes. The discussants explained how a communication and resolution program (CRP) is different from our standard response to medical error, and how disclosure plays a key role in managing the fallout from an inadvertent medical error.
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