“Unsafe healthcare delivery harms millions of patients,” said Marcus Schabacker, M.D., Ph.D., president and CEO, ECRI. “Our annual patient safety report provides a roadmap to help healthcare leaders know what goes wrong and how to prevent harm.”
ECRI’s Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns relies on the analysis of more than 3.2 million patient safety events in its Patient Safety Organization reporting program, as well as the judgment and experience of its interdisciplinary patient safety and medication safety experts. This list identifies areas that are high priorities for a variety of reasons, such as new risks, existing concerns that are changing because of new technology or care delivery models, and persistent issues that need focused attention or pose new opportunities for intervention.
Click here to download the organization's white paper on the list.