ECRI's Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2025: A Critical Tool for Healthcare Providers across the Continuum
ECRI's Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns identifies critical safety risks, offering insight and guidance for healthcare systems to improve care and minimize harm. The 2025 edition highlights urgent safety issues amid the evolving healthcare landscape, emphasizing the need for organizations to promptly address these risks.
ECRI outlines on their blog the benefits and how organizations should use their top 10 report. There is also a link to get your copy of the report to help your organization. The resource and blog post can be found here ECRI's Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2025.
This article falls under Strategic and Clinical/Patient Safety in the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) risk domains.
Strategic
Risks associated with the focus and direction of the organization. Because the rapid pace of change can create unpredictability, risks included within the strategic domain are associated with brand, reputation, competition or failure to adapt to changing times (such as health reform or shifting customer priorities). Managed care relationships/partnerships, conflict of interest, marketing and sales, media relations, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, affiliations and other business arrangements, contract administration, and advertising are other areas generally considered as potential strategic risks.
Clinical/Patient Safety
Risks associated with the delivery of care to patients, residents and other health care customers. Clinical risks include failure to follow evidence-based practice, medication errors, hospital acquired conditions (HAC), serious safety events (SSE), health care equity, opportunities to improve safety within the care environments, and others.