Compounded Peptide Products Marketed as Wellness Therapies

The growing popularity of “wellness peptides” has outpaced the clinical evidence needed to support their safety and effectiveness. Marketed for benefits such as muscle growth, anti-aging, and recov...

Incident Identification and Notifications in Aging Services: A Systems Thinking Approach

Strengthening incident management in aging services starts long before an investigation begins. Yet, many organizations overlook the crucial first steps—prompt identification, immediate care, accur...

Patient Safety: A Moral Imperative and Smart Business Strategy

White Paper from ECRI’s C-Suite Roundtables Despite decades of effort and the best intentions of leaders across the country, preventable patient harm remains a tragic, persistent and costly challen...

Hazard Vulnerability Assessment: An Expanded Approach Using Systems Thinking

Learn how to identify hazards and risks that are most likely to have an impact on your facility with a comprehensive methodology Per the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, healthcare orga...

Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy through Deprescribing

Polypharmacy refers to the simultaneous use of multiple medications. It can lead to risks such as drug interactions, increased side effects, medication non-adherence, and cognitive impairment. Lear...

Diagnostic Excellence in Dementia Care White Paper

Learn more about barriers to timely and accurate dementia diagnosis, and how a systems safety strategy can improve diagnostic excellence. ECRI's white paper: Diagnostic Excellence in Dementia Care ...

Exploring Systems Safety White Paper: Increasing Awareness of Work Design beyond Acute Care

Download your complimentary copy now to learn how a systems safety approach can drive continuous improvement within your organization. Improving patient, resident, worker, and visitor safety within...

Aging Services White Paper

Mismatched Needs and Services Can Lead to Harm Processes for preadmission, admission, discharge, and transition in care are at the very heart of every provider organization. These daily activit...

White Paper | Operationalizing High Reliability in Aging Services through Systems Safety

Download your complimentary copy now to learn how to build the HRO framework in aging services organizations. Healthcare leaders know that building a high reliability organization protects patient ...

Leveraging Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement for High Reliability in Aging Services

Download your free copy of the White Paper Long-term care facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid are required to establish a quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) progr...

White Paper | Responsive Staffing and Scheduling in Aging Services

Learn how to implement a responsive staffing model that is stable, flexible, and responsive to the organization’s needs Continuity of care is highly dependent on continuity of staffing and scheduli...

White Paper | Evolution of Risk Mitigation in Value Analysis during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Download a free copy of the Value Analysis white paper addressing opportunities for improvement, improving processes by evaluating vulnerabilities, and the importance of accessing clinical evidence...

Outbreak Response in Aging Services: Cohort Unit Design

Download our white paper During an outbreak, cohorting can be an effective approach to preventing and controlling the spread of infection. Although effective cohorting practices for a given infecti...

A Guide to Getting it Right the First Time

Medical Equipment Planning Whitepaper Construction projects offer hospitals a once-in-a-decade chance to design and equip clinical environments to meet current and future goals for clinical, financ...

Readiness Can Help Minimize Harm

Download a free copy of the aging services white paper When an incident occurs in aging services, the very first steps taken—including identifying the incident, caring for the people affected, maki...

Emergency Preparedness and Response in Aging Services

Download a free copy of the Aging Services White Paper on epidemics, pandemics, and outbreak response In its broadest sense, effectiveness is dependent on the degree to which all stakeholders—n...

Critical Value of Third-Party Expertise for Accident Investigation

Learn about the benefits of utilizing outside experts and the challenges of internal investigations Despite the extraordinary efforts of legislators, grassroots organizations, and individual hea...