ECRI released its annual report of the top 10 patient safety concerns, drawing on evidence-based research, data, and expert insights. The top 10 concerns are:
- Transitioning new clinicians from education to practice
- Workarounds with barcode medication administration systems
- Access to maternal and perinatal care
- Unintended consequences of technology adoption
- Physical and emotional well-being of healthcare workers
- Complexity of preventing diagnostic error
- Equitable care for people with physical and intellectual disabilities
- Drug, supply, and equipment shortages
- Misuse of parenteral syringes to administer oral liquid medications
- Preventing patient falls
Download the report and review ECRI’s actionable recommendations to remedy these challenges. |