Preventing Workplace Violence in Healthcare

Insurers Reduce risk and prepare your clients for new 2025 legislation Workplace violence in healthcare is on the rise, increasing liability and financial exposure for organizations. New state laws...

Call to Action: Practitioners Need to Warn Patients About Purchasing Counterfeit Drugs Online

Problem: Practitioners should be on guard for patients who may present to different healthcare settings with adverse reactions after knowingly or unknowingly taking substandard and falsified (SF) d...

Do You Know What Is Going on in Your OR? The Anesthesiology Residents' Perspective

PROBLEM: If you interviewed members of your perioperative team to ask what keeps them up at night, you might be surprised by what you uncover. The operating room (OR) represents an area with high p...

Guidelines for Safe Electronic Communication of Medication Information

Strategies to safely present drug information in various electronic formats.

From Risk to Resilience: How PSOs Help Build High Reliability Organizations

In today’s complex healthcare environment, the push toward becoming a High Reliability Organization (HRO) is not just aspirational—it is essential. HROs operate under the principle that even in ...

What’s in a Name?

The “-grastim” drug stem name Medications that end with the suffix “-grastim” belong to a class of medications known as granulocyte colony-stimulating factors (G-CSF). This class of medications bel...

Promoting Clinician Well-Being through Human Factors Engineering

Healthcare providers dedicate their lives to patient care, often working within systems that unintentionally contribute to stress, fatigue, and burnout. Human Factors Engineering (HFE), a disciplin...

ECRI Examines Reliability of Pulse Oximeters on People with Varying Skin Pigmentation

Darker skin pigmentation can adversely influence pulse oximeter readings, leading to missed or delayed diagnoses and treatment. This health disparity has caused the U.S. Food and Drug Administratio...

Implement Strategies to Prevent Persistent Medication Errors and Hazards: 2025

Reflecting on events that occurred in 2024, we have identified four concerns related to medication safety, which were included in ECRI’s Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2025 or ECRI’s Top 10 Hea...

Clinicians Are Leveraging This Time-Saving Research when Implementing Evidence-Based Practice

Evidence-based practice is a problem-solving approach to clinical care that combines the best available evidence with a clinician’s expertise and patient preferences to make informed decisions. How...

Action Needed to Address Risk With Custom and Multi-Chamber Bag Parenteral Nutrition—Part II

PROBLEM: The complexity of parenteral nutrition (PN) coupled with the heightened risk of causing significant patient harm when used in error, calls for targeted safeguards throughout the medication...

Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines Begin with Medical Research Librarians

Guideline developers and medical specialty societies encounter significant challenges when performing systematic literature searches, which are crucial for developing trustworthy clinical practice ...

Fighting the Viral Spread of Medical Misinformation: Empowering Patients through Health Literacy

ECRI has just released its Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2025, which highlights the most urgent patient safety challenges currently facing the healthcare industry. This report is informed by a com...

Survey Exposes Risks with Custom and Multi-Chamber Bag Parenteral Nutrition—Part I

PROBLEM: Parenteral nutrition (PN) is a complex life-sustaining therapy for patients who cannot intake adequate oral or enteral nutrition. It can contain more than 40 ingredients and is considered ...

Ensuring Safe AI Use in Healthcare: A Governance Imperative

ECRI has just released its Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2025, which highlights the most urgent patient safety challenges currently facing the healthcare industry. This report is informed by a com...

Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2025

Learn how to identify and address patient safety concerns in your facilities ECRI's Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2025 highlights the most pressing safety challenges facing both patients and staff...

ECRI's Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2025: A Critical Tool for Healthcare Providers across the Continuum

Patient safety is a cornerstone of healthcare, and each year, new challenges arise that require proactive action from healthcare organizations. ECRI's Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns identifies crit...

Start Talking to Patients about Advance Care Planning Today!

Advance care planning (ACP) is not only for older adults or terminally ill patients; all patients benefit from these discussions with their doctor to avoid making important decisions in the middle ...

A Deeper Dive into Active Failures and Accountability Using Just Culture Principles—Part II

PROBLEM: In our last newsletter, in the main article, Another case of nursing criminalization – Long-term care facilities must improve systems, not blame nurses - Part I, we discussed how a series ...

Ensuring Safety in Senior Care: Why PSOs Matter

Protecting the safety of the senior population is crucial, as people tend to be more susceptible to health complications, injuries, and emotional challenges as they age. Long-term care providers ...

How Do Implanted Materials Affect Patients Over Time: An Update on ECRI’s Partnership with FDA on Materials Safety in Medical Devices

Comprehensive evidence-based studies examine safety and risks of materials used in implantable medical devices ECRI's mission to reduce preventable harm across the healthcare industry includes leve...