Taking a Stand against Racial Injustice

Tightly woven into ECRI’s DNA is the imperative to speak truth to power, based on facts and evidence. The facts are that for centuries in the United States, racism has caused historic and acute tr...

Reducing the Noise from Alerts, Alarms, and Notifications

When technology entered healthcare, so too did alerts. Alerts acted as attention grabbers, reminders, notices of changes in a patient's condition, and warnings about malfunctions or improper funct...

The Differences Between Human Error, At-Risk Behavior, and Reckless Behavior Are Key to a Just Culture

Do you believe your organization operates within a Just Culture? We have asked this question many times while working collaboratively with healthcare organizations and professionals. It is not an e...

Readiness Can Help Minimize Harm

Download a free copy of the aging services white paper When an incident occurs in aging services, the very first steps taken—including identifying the incident, caring for the people affected, maki...

Healthcare Acquired Infection Risks from Worker Fingernails and Polish

Infection prevention is of vital concern right now, and reducing disease transmission between healthcare workers (HCWs) and patients is critical for patient safety.  One source of danger to patient...

Emergency Preparedness and Response in Aging Services

Download a free copy of the Aging Services White Paper on epidemics, pandemics, and outbreak response In its broadest sense, effectiveness is dependent on the degree to which all stakeholders—n...

Critical Value of Third-Party Expertise for Accident Investigation

Learn about the benefits of utilizing outside experts and the challenges of internal investigations Despite the extraordinary efforts of legislators, grassroots organizations, and individual hea...

Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2020

Learn how to identify and address patient safety concerns in your facilities The 2020 edition of our Top 10 list features new topics, with an emphasis on concerns that have the biggest potential im...

ECRI PSO Deep Dive: Safe Ambulatory Care

Strategies for Patient Safety & Risk Reduction Overview For its eighth deep dive analysis, ECRI PSO has extended the focus beyond the hospital to ambulatory care—a setting that represents the l...