The Institute for Safe Medication Practices and ECRI compiled their annual report detailing the top 10 patient safety concerns challenging healthcare facilities and providers. Despite these serious challenges, the report also discusses possible opportunities for healthcare leaders to make effective changes through actionable recommendations as a way to lower risk and improve patient safety outcomes.
Their Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns List** for 2024 includes:
- Challenges Transitioning Newly Trained Clinicians from Education into Practice
- Workarounds with Barcode Medication Administration Systems
- Barriers to Access Maternal and Perinatal Care
- Unintended Consequences of Technology Adoption
- Decline in Physical and Emotional Well-Being of Healthcare Workers
- Complexity of Preventing Diagnostic Error
- Providing Equitable Care for People with Physical and Intellectual Disabilities
- Delay in Care Resulting from Drug, Supply, and Equipment Shortages
- Misuse of Parenteral Syringes to Administer Oral Liquid Medications
- Ongoing Challenges with Preventing Patient Falls
**ECRI. Special Report: Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2024. ECRI; 2024.
Education as Prevention
To try to mitigate these risks, LAMMICO offers our insured hospitals complimentary education related to these risk management and patient safety topics. These online courses are available through LAMMICO's subsidiary, Medical Interactive Community (MI):
"Nurse Well-Being: The Burnout Dilemma"
"Burnout: System Responsibilities, Individual Safeguards"
"Understanding and Reducing Diagnostic Error"
"Medical Error Prevention, Analysis, and Common Areas"
"ED APPs and Physicians, Part 1: Demographics and Diagnosis"
"Deaf and Hard of Hearing Patients: Providers' Obligations"
"Falls Prevention for All Hospital Staff"
"Falls Prevention for Nurses"
"Falls Prevention for Nursing Assistants"
Accessing Education
The MI website is your one-stop site for LAMMICO’s comprehensive library of online Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) courses. Nearly all of our online CME courses are eligible to satisfy MOC Part II requirements. If you are a LAMMICO policyholder, taking our online courses is as easy as logging in at lammico.com/login. LAMMICO-insured hospital and facility users can log in at medicalinteractive.com/login. All the educational courses and other products on MI – monographs, videos, slideshows and articles, for example – are free for LAMMICO insureds!
