Advisory Board March 13, 2025
ECRI on Monday released its “Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns” for 2025, with the risks of dismissing patient, family, and caregiver concerns topping the list.
With outpatient volumes growing, how is patient safety being affected?
How ECRI made 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...
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