Advisory Board March 14, 2023
ECRI on Monday released its list of the “Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns” for 2023, with the pediatric mental health crisis and violence against healthcare workers topping the list.
How ECRI created the list
For this year’s list, ECRI, the nation’s largest nonprofit patient safety organization, and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) analyzed scientific literature, patient safety events, concerns reported to or investigated by either organization, and other various internal and external data to identify the most pressing issues impacting patient safety.
For each topic, a cross-departmental team of ECRI and ISMP experts analyzed supporting evidence and evaluated its potential impact using the following criteria:
- Severity: How seriously would patients be harmed if this safety issue occurred? ...
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