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Fact Based List:
Erin McCann: HIT leads list of top 10 safety concerns
Submitted By Anonymous, Created 04/28/2014 - 10:05
- Data integrity failures with health information technology systems*
- Poor care coordination with patient’s next level of care
- Test results reporting errors
- Drug shortages
- Failure to adequately manage behavioral health patients in acute care settings
- Mislabeled specimens
- Retained devices and unretrieved fragments*
- Patient falls while toileting
- Inadequate monitoring for respiratory depression in patients taking opioids
- Inadequate reprocessing of endoscopes and surgical instruments*
Source: ECRI
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Notes: *These items were also included in ECRI's top 10 health hazards list.