Chief Healthcare Executive March 21, 2024
ECRI’s 2024 list of threats to patient safety includes a familiar challenge: preventing falls. Marcus Schabacker, ECRI’s CEO, discusses an ongoing concern.
In ECRI’s list of the top 10 threats to patient safety in 2024, preventing falls trailed other challenges, including training new clinicians, using new technology such as AI, and barriers to maternal care.
The ongoing challenge in preventing patients from falling ranked 10th on the list. However, Dr. Marcus Schabacker, president and CEO of ECRI, the nonprofit group focused on patient safety, expresses frustration that it remains a lingering problem.
“It is just so disheartening to see that year after year after year, we lose so many patients to preventable falls, and we have tried so hard to...
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