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...