Talk:Morbidity and mortality conference

Only at "academic medical centers" and "large private medical and surgical practices"? Only reviewing "mistakes occurung duruing the care of patients"?
There are two lines in the article which I feel may provide an inaccurately limited scope of the M&M practice: "held by medical services at academic medical centers and by most large private medical and surgical practices" and "peer reviews of mistakes occurring during the care of patients". The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for example, have a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which usually discuss results of outbreak, immunization, and the like. The CDC is neither an "academic medical center" or a "private medical [or] surgical practice".

Also, I believe M&M conferences will occasionally discuss things other than "mistakes occuring during the care of patients". For example, I believe that treatment of rare illness, or "unusual" treatments which were a complete success may be shared in this forum (both of which would definitely be learning experiences, but neither of which necessarily had "mistakes" made).

I'll have to think more about a proposed "corrected wording", but I wanted to bring this up. Dmcmorris (talk) 12:49, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

No Citations in Second Paragraph
The overall purpose of Morbidity and Mortality Conferences depicted in the first paragraph seems to be quite neutral, and all of the presented facts appear to be cited with reliable sources. However, the origin of the Morbidity and Mortality Conferences described in the second paragraph has no citations whatsoever. The article,"Reconceiving the Morbidity and Mortality Conference in an Era of Big Data: An "Unexpected" Outcomes Approach," mentions the fact that the M&M conferences were originally introduced by Ernest Codman in the early 20th century. Nonetheless, there is no other evidence present in this particular article for the claims made about him losing his staff privileges. Kpatel1214 (talk) 20:53, 13 February 2017 (UTC)