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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Apr 13, 2021
| Recommendation
The guidance included in this document regarding advertising will help ophthalmologists reduce their liability exposure, comply with underwriting requirements, and avoid uninsured risk.
Dec 8, 2020
| Consent Form
Oct 9, 2014
| Consent Form
Oct 8, 2014
| Consent Form
Oct 9, 2014
| Consent Form
Jun 4, 2014
| Consent Form
Oct 9, 2014
| Consent Form
May 7, 2014
| Consent Form
Aug 27, 2024
| Consent Form
Jul 9, 2018
| Consent Form
Oct 11, 2013
| Consent Form
Apr 13, 2023
| Recommendation
Ophthalmologists may share the care of ophthalmic surgery patients with community optometrists or optometrists within their practice. There are patient safety and liability risks associated with surgical comanagement.
Aug 16, 2024
| Sample Letter or Form
This is a sample agreement to comply with the Federal Trade Commission’s Contact Lens (prescription) Rule (effective 10/16/2020).
Aug 16, 2024
| Sample Letter or Form
The Federal Trade Commission’s Contact Lens Rule that went into effect on October 16, 2020, requires practices to confirm in writing that patients received their contact lens prescriptions. This patient acknowledgement form can be used to comply with the Rule.
Apr 13, 2023
| Recommendation
Optometrists are independent practitioners, but there are differences in education and legal scope of practice between eye physicians/surgeons and ODs.
Aug 9, 2024
| Recommendation
Disclosure of an adverse event or unanticipated outcome is important for patient safety, patient trust, patient right to autonomy to make decisions about treatment, continuity of care among providers, and to provide empathy.
Feb 6, 2023
| Recommendation
Inaccurate or incomplete documentation is a threat to patient safety and hampers the defense of a medical malpractice lawsuit. Conversely, careful documentation of the history, exam, and decision-making process may dissuade a lawsuit.
Mar 15, 2020
| Case Study
This was a “perfect storm” for the plaintiff: the equipment had inherent design flaws that complicated the insured’s and the technician’s set up of the microkeratome, making both the manufacturer and the ophthalmologist liable for the harm.
Jan 9, 2015
| Case Study
It is important to review key studies like topography before the day of surgery. Even though the ophthalmologist correctly revised the surgical plan from bilateral simultaneous LASIK to LASIK OD and PRK OS following a diagnosis of forme fruste keratoconus, the patient deserved more information regarding the specific higher risks she faced postoperatively due to the FFK.
Oct 11, 2013
| Article
Florida passed a law on comanagement (Ch 2013-26, Laws of Florida) that went into effect on July 1, 2013. Understand your obligations to the patient under this law.
Aug 14, 2020
| Article
Recently, OMIC made significant payments to settle two claims alleging delay in diagnosis and treatment of acanthamoeba keratitis (AK). Defense experts in these cases noted that AK is rare, difficult to diagnose and treat, and usually leads to poor outcomes. These settlements prompted our Claims Committee to ask Risk Management to review similar lawsuits.
Jan 7, 2025
| Consent Form
Oct 8, 2014
| Consent Form
Apr 7, 2007
| Consent Form
Oct 9, 2014
| Consent Form
Oct 9, 2014
| Consent Form
Oct 9, 2014
| Consent Form
Oct 9, 2014
| Consent Form
Oct 9, 2014
| Consent Form
Oct 11, 2013
| Sample Letter or Form
Use this form to comply with Florida law on comanagement.
Oct 9, 2014
| Consent Form
Oct 9, 2014
| Consent Form
Dec 1, 2002
| Consent Form
Oct 9, 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.
Apr 16, 2012
| Consent Form
Oct 5, 2022
| Recommendation
Refractive surgery risk concerns include indications for surgery, patient selection, preoperative evaluation, off-label use, informed consent process, and immediate sequential bilateral surgery.
Sep 6, 2024
| Consent Form
Nov 11, 2012
| Sample Letter or Form
This sample form can be used to document salient information regarding the surgery.
Dec 19, 2019
| Risk Management Bulletin
Oct 9, 2014
| 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).