ECRI: Top 10 patient safety concerns 2025

Summary

ECRI's Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2025 highlights the most pressing safety challenges facing both patients and staff in the coming year. This report not only identifies these critical issues but also provides actionable recommendations to address and mitigate them.

Content

The list for 2025:

1. Risks of dismissing patient, family, and caregiver concerns.
2. Insufficient governance of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare
3. The wide availability and viral spread of medical misinformation: Empowering patients through health literacy.
4. Medical error and delay in care resulting from cybersecurity breaches.
5. Unique healthcare challenges in caring for veterans.
6. The growing threat of substandard and falsified drugs.
7. Diagnostic error: The big three—cancers, major vascular events and infections.
8. Persistence of healthcare-associated infections in long-term care facilities.
9. Inadequate communication and coordination during discharge.
10. Deteriorating community pharmacy working conditions contribute to medication errors and compromise patient and staff safety.