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Traditional adult emergency departments (EDs) may be unprepared to care for children, leading to increased risks of missed and delayed diagnoses, errors in treatment, and more. Jennifer Comerford, a Patient Safety Analyst at ECRI, describes these risks and steps organizations can take to prepare for pediatric patients and families can take to protect their loved ones—including children experiencing emergencies in other settings.

Traditional adult emergency departments may be unprepared to care for children, leading to increased risks. We discuss steps organizations can take to prepare for pediatric patients and families can take to protect their loved ones.


Protecting Children in Adult Emergency Departments

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ECRI Now provides unique insights on pressing healthcare issues.&nbsp; In each episode, ECRI’s subject matter experts share their experience in relationship to the latest healthcare news.Topics will range from ethical issues in healthcare, patient safety, infection control, healthcare IT and spend management across the continuum of care from health systems to non-acute care settings.

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In an era of widespread staffing shortages, rising workplace violence threatens physical and psychological harm that could drive even more providers away from healthcare. In this episode, Andrew Furman, ECRI’s Vice President of Clinical Evidence and Safety Solutions, describes the importance of leadership support for a systematic approach to understanding the prevalence of violence and implementing effective steps to reduce the risk to workers across all care settings.Physical and verbal violence against healthcare staff was featured on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2023, including additional recommendations rooted in a Total Systems Safety approach. Register to download the special report at https://www.ecri.org/top-10-patient-safety-concerns-2023-special-report.

We discuss the importance of leadership support for a systematic approach to understanding the prevalence of violence and implementing effective steps to reduce the risk to workers across all care settings.


A Systematic Approach to Workplace Violence Prevention

Maternal harm and death in the United States is the worst among all wealthy nations, and racial and other disparities mean that some groups are even more severely impacted. ECRI’s Carlye Hendershot, senior patient safety analyst, describes efforts underway to reverse these trends, highlighting steps that policymakers and providers can take to protect patients who are or have recently been pregnant, especially in the postpartum period after they leave the hospital.

Maternal harm and death in the United States is the worst among all wealthy nations, and racial and other disparities mean that some groups are even more severely impacted. We discuss steps that policymakers and providers can take to protect patients.



Racial and Other Disparities in Maternal Healthcare

As generative AI technologies get more attention on social media, in the news, and even Hollywood labor disputes, providers are putting a new focus on how AI is used in healthcare. ECRI’s Senior Engineering Manager Erin Sparnon joins us to discuss how AI is already being used, how AI developers are learning to overcome racial biases that may have been baked in to AI training data in the past, and how organizations can prepare for even more AI development and implementation.

We discuss how AI is already being used in healthcare, how AI developers are learning to overcome racial biases in training data, and how organizations can prepare for even more AI development and implementation.


Preparing for the Next Wave of AI in Healthcare

A pair of exam gloves may cost only 10 cents, but ECRI estimates that U.S. healthcare providers spend more than a half billion dollars on exam gloves each year. In this episode, Julie Miller, a Principal Project Engineer at ECRI, describes how she tests exam gloves in real-world conditions to make sure they stretch, bend, and come on and off readily to protect wearers from infectious diseases.

In this episode, Julie Miller, a Principal Project Engineer at ECRI, describes how she tests exam gloves in real-world conditions to make sure they stretch, bend, and come on and off readily to protect wearers from infectious diseases.


In the ECRI Lab: Testing Exam Gloves

Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) came onto the market only recently, but are widely prescribed, displacing drugs that have been available since the 1950s. Jose Nery, a Safe Medication Management Fellow with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), discusses errors related to DOACs reported to ECRI and the ISMP Patient Safety Organization, and strategies that pharmacists and patients can use to limit those risks.

Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) came onto the market only recently, but are widely prescribed, displacing drugs that have been available since the 1950s. Jose Nery, a Safe Medication Management Fellow with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), discusses errors related to DOACs reported to ECRI and the ISMP Patient Safety Organization, and strategies that pharmacists and patients can use to limit those risks.


Risks of Direct Oral Anticoagulants

Most patients will never come into contact with the risk manager when they go to the hospital or the doctor's office. But without the risk manager, a crucial layer of umbrella-like protection would be missing to ensure their care is safe and effective. Our guest, Cailin Madrigale, a Risk Management Analyst at ECRI, describes the role risk managers play as we celebrate their contributions during Healthcare Risk Management Week.

Most patients will never come into contact with the risk manager when they go to the hospital or the doctor's office. But without the risk manager, a crucial layer of umbrella-like protection would be missing to ensure their care is safe and effective. Our guest, Cailin Madrigale, a Risk Management Analyst at ECRI, describes the role risk managers play as we celebrate their contributions during Healthcare Risk Management Week.


Recent Episodes

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A Systematic Approach to Workplace Violence Prevention

Racial and Other Disparities in Maternal Healthcare

Preparing for the Next Wave of AI in Healthcare

In the ECRI Lab: Testing Exam Gloves

Risks of Direct Oral Anticoagulants

The Crucial Role Healthcare Risk Managers Play

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Paul Anderson

Director, Patient Safety, Risk, & Quality Publications