What’s New in the Patient Safety World
May 2016
ECRI Institute’s Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2016
Every year ECRI Insitute publishes its Top 10 list of patient safety
concerns. Here is their Top 10 list for 2016:
- Health IT configurations and organizational workflow that do not
support each other
- Patient identification errors
- Inadequate management of behavioral health issues in
non-behavioral-health settings
- Inadequate cleaning and disinfection of flexible endoscopes
- Inadequate test-result reporting and follow-up
- Inadequate monitoring for respiratory depression in patients
prescribed opioids
- Medication errors related to pounds and kilograms
- Unintentionally retained objects despite correct count
- Inadequate antimicrobial stewardship
- Failure to embrace a culture of safety
The first two are no
surprise, given our frequent columns on issues related to healthcare IT and
wrong patient issues. Also, the issue of inadequate management of behavioral
health problems in non-behavioral health settings has been a frequent topic for
us (many columns on suicide on general hospital units, wandering and elopement,
and violence in healthcare).
We’ll let you go to the full ECRI list for details. Click here to go to the ECRI Institute site where you can download the list.
References:
ECRI Insitute. Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations 2016.
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