Summary
This annual report from ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) presents the top 10 patient safety concerns currently confronting the healthcare industry. It is a guide for a systems approach to adopting proactive strategies and solutions to mitigate risks, improve healthcare outcomes and enhance the well-being of patients and the healthcare workforce.
Drawing on ECRI and ISMP’s evidence-based research, data and insights, this report sheds light on issues that leaders should evaluate within their own institutions as potential opportunities to reduce preventable harm. Some of the concerns represent emerging risks, some are well known but still unresolved, but all of them pertain to areas where organisations can make meaningful change.
Content
Top ten safety concerns
- Challenges transitioning newly trained clinicians from education into practice
- Workarounds with barcode medication administration systems
- Barriers to access maternal and perinatal care
- Unintended consequences of technology adoption
- Decline in physical and emotional wellbeing of healthcare workers
- Complexity of preventing diagnostic error
- Providing equitable care for people with physical and intellectual disabilities
- Delay in care resulting from drug, supply and equipment shortages
- Misuse of parenteral syringes to administer oral liquid medications
- Ongoing challenges with preventing patient falls
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