Top 10 patient safety threats of 2024: Helping new clinicians, maternal care barriers, AI, and more

Top 10 patient safety threats of 2024: Helping new clinicians, maternal care barriers, AI, and more 
Chief Healthcare Executive, by Ron Southwick; 3/21/24 
When ECRI unveiled its list of the leading threats to patient safety for 2024, some items are likely to be expected, such as physician burnout, delays in care due to drug shortages or falls in the hospital. However, ECRI, a nonprofit group focused on patient safety, placed one item atop all others: the challenges in helping new clinicians move from training to caring for patients. ... ECRI’s top 10 threats to patient safety for 2024: 

1. Transitioning new clinicians from education into practice
2. Workarounds with barcode medication administration systems
3. Barriers to access to maternal care
4. Unintended consequences of technology adoption, including AI
5. Decline in physical and emotional well-being of healthcare workers
6. Complexity of preventing diagnostic error
7. Ensuring equitable care for patients with physical and intellectual disabilities
8. Care delays due to drug, supply, and equipment shortages
9. Misuse of parenteral syringes to administer oral liquid medications
10. Continued challenges with preventing patient falls