Advisory Board March 14, 2024
ECRI recently released its “Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns” for 2024, with new clinicians transitioning from education to practice topping the list.
Cheat sheet: The Experience-Complexity Gap
How ECRI created the list
ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) reviewed millions of reported patient safety events and surveyed their members to nominate patient and workforce safety concerns for evaluation. Nominators supported their proposals with information from scientific literature, event reports, causal analyses, and more.
A cross-disciplinary team of ECRI and ISMP experts then evaluated each nominated topic using the following criteria:
- Severity: How seriously would patients be harmed if this safety issue occurred?
- Frequency: How likely is this safety issue to occur?
- Breadth: How many patients...
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