Resource Library
The Resource Library is a compendium of consent forms, risk management recommendations, sample documents, articles, and other risk management materials to promote ophthalmic patient safety and reduce liability. Contact riskmanagement@omic.com with questions.
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May 2, 2016
| Consent Form
Oct 6, 2014
| Consent Form
Jan 8, 2024
| Sample Letter or Form
When retiring or leaving a practice, use this form to document the patient's request to have someone outside the practice perform their postoperative follow-up care.
Jan 8, 2024
| Sample Letter or Form
When retiring or leaving a practice, use this form to to document the patient's understanding that another provider within the practice will provide their postoperative follow-up care.
Sep 6, 2024
| Consent Form
Dec 11, 2020
| Consent Form
Oct 9, 2014
| Consent Form
Dec 9, 2020
| Consent Form
Oct 6, 2014
| Consent Form
Aug 1, 2024
| Risk Management Bulletin
We would like to provide you with an update on the use of biosimilars to treat ROP.
Apr 1, 2022
| Article
This document summarizes the conditions of coverage that appear in the ROP application; see that application for a complete discussion of the requirements.
Apr 1, 2022
| Sample Letter or Form
Notify parents/caregivers of the need for ongoing ROP exams following discharge from the hospital.
Apr 1, 2022
| Recommendation
This ROP Safety Net Toolkit addresses hospital-based ROP care when treatment will be provided elsewhere. It contains sample protocols, which may need to be customized, and refers to ROP clinical care guidelines.
Apr 1, 2022
| Recommendation
This ROP Safety Net Toolkit addresses screening and treatment in the hospital. It contains sample protocols, which may need to be customized, and refers to ROP clinical care guidelines.
Mar 9, 2023
| Consent Form
Apr 4, 2016
| Consent Form
Apr 1, 2022
| Sample Letter or Form
Follow up on all missed, cancelled, or rescheduled ROP appointments, including no-shows, and send this letter if unable to reach the parents to schedule the exam.
Apr 1, 2022
| Recommendation
This ROP Safety Net Toolkit addresses ROP care provided on an outpatient basis. It contains sample protocols, which may need to be customized, and refers to ROP clinical care guidelines.
Apr 1, 2022
| Sample Letter or Form
Complete and sign this letter after the first outpatient ROP exam.
Jun 18, 2024
| Sample Protocol
The protocol listed in these materials is based on the Policy Statement "Screening Examination of Premature Infants for Retinopathy of Prematurity" and the Joint Technical Report "Telemedicine for Evaluation of ROP." The protocol incorporates both required conditions of coverage with OMIC as well as risk management recommendations which individual physicians may adapt to their own system and institutional policies and procedures.
Mar 8, 2022
| Consent Form
Aug 15, 2018
| Recommendation
This document will present the obstacles to safe ROP care, OMIC's ROP claims experience, and our risk management recommendations.
Jan 1, 2023
| Recommendation
OMIC first developed and distributed ROP Safety Net protocols in 2006. Our experience in helping ophthalmologists implement these patient safety measures has convinced us that liability for ROP care can only be decreased if ophthalmologists work closely with neonatologists, nurses in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs), hospitals, and parents. We accordingly developed sample protocols—our ROP Safety Net Toolkit—for both office- and hospital-based care.
Jun 26, 2019
| Risk Management Bulletin
The American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Ophthalmology revised its Policy Statement (PS)1 on ROP screening late last year. We revised the clinical tables in our ROP Safety Net accordingly.
May 9, 2022
| Risk Management Bulletin
Changes to ROP Safety Net clinical tables and recommendations based on a 2021 release of The International Classification of Retinopathy of Prematurity, Third Edition1 (ICROP3).
Apr 1, 2022
| Sample Letter or Form
This spreadsheet can be used to record important birth and exam information about each ROP exam and treatment performed to ensure that all infants are tracked until they meet end-of-acute screening criteria.
Apr 1, 2022
| Sample Letter or Form
If the infant needs to be transferred to another hospital for non-ROP care, use this letter to notify parents of the importance of further ROP exams.
Apr 1, 2022
| Sample Letter or Form
Notify parents/caregivers that their baby is being transferred to another hospital for treatment of ROP.
Mar 10, 2022
| Recommendation
Concerns about IVAV both as primary or salvage therapy have been addressed in the literature and at eye society meetings. In addition, many questions are currently being studied and debated. Despite these uncertainties, when faced with aggressive or refractive ROP, ophthalmologists at times feel there is no other prudent choice but to treat ROP with IVAV. This document will address those concerns, and provide risk management recommendations specific to the use of anti-VEGF agents “off-label” for the treatment of ROP.
Jul 16, 2014
| Case Study
There was definite liability in this case but who would be held responsible? The physicians could have avoided liability for this injury by documenting the event in the operative note and filing an incident report with the hospital following the procedure.
Nov 11, 2012
| Sample Letter or Form
This sample form can be used to document salient information regarding the surgery.
Oct 31, 2024
| Consent Form
May 9, 2023
| Consent Form
May 9, 2019
| Recommendation
Each day, countless patients call their ophthalmologist to report problems and seek advice. This telephone screening toolkit will provide guidance on how to ensure safe telephone care during the day and after office hours.
Dec 19, 2019
| Risk Management Bulletin
Sep 6, 2016
| Sample Protocol
To ensure that the correct drug and dose are injected into the correct eye every time, the ophthalmologist needs to lead a time out before each injection. A time out provides the opportunity to confirm that the patient, medical record, and ophthalmologist are in agreement.
Aug 28, 2024
| Risk Management Bulletin
Instituting a time-out process is known to increase patient safety by reducing wrong site, wrong procedure, wrong medication, and wrong patient errors.
Aug 4, 2020
| Consent Form
Jun 14, 2023
| Risk Management Bulletin
OMIC Risk Management clarifies its position on the use of biosimilar medications for ophthalmic care.
Mar 28, 2022
| Consent Form
Aug 10, 2021
| Video
In a 2-minute video, Dr. Pauline Merrill shares her tips for reducing the risk of error when administering intravitreal injections. A time out provides the opportunity to confirm that the patient, medical record, and ophthalmologist are in agreement.
Dec 9, 2020
| Consent Form
Mar 19, 2023
| Consent Form
Dec 22, 2015
| Article
Over the course of a 35-year career, 95% of ophthalmologists will have at least one claim against them and more than half can expect two or three. Since 1987, OMIC has closed more than 400 claims brought against young ophthalmologists (YOs).
Mar 13, 2020
| Consent Form