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Clinical Practice Guideline Development: Key Factors to Consider Using GRADE

Overview Clinical practice guidelines make recommendations about many aspects of patient care: risk assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, monitoring, and follow-up. Some recommendations ...

Purchasing in Senior Care: Mission-critical Role for Cost-effectiveness, Stewardship, and Safety

Overview There has never been a more challenging time for healthcare. Employee and supply shortages are rampant. Finances are challenged by record inflation, cost increases in all areas of oper...

Creative Ways to Reduce Supply Spend in Ambulatory Care amidst Unprecedented Inflation and Disruption

Overview As the economic fallout from the last several years continues inflicting record levels of inflation, employee turnover, supply shortages, and cost increases, now coupled with the endin...

Value Analysis: Creative Ways to Reduce Spend amidst Inflation and Disruption

Overview As the fallout from the last several years continues inflicting record levels of inflation, employee turnover, and supply shortages—now coupled with the ending of several government pr...

PSOs and Litigation: Maximize Your Protections

Overview Healthcare providers are challenged to protect sensitive patient safety information, while performing essential safety, risk, and quality work. Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) can ...

Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection: Break the Chain of Infection

Overview Over the course of the last three years, infection prevention and healthcare technology management leaders needed to rapidly adjust to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Now, with the c...

Navigating Staffing Shortages: How PSOs as Learning Systems can Reduce Risks

Overview Staffing shortages pose a significant challenge to healthcare organizations. While the strain of caring for COVID-19 patients continues to decrease as the number of case drop, hospital...

Home-use Device Recalls: What You Need to Know to Mitigate Risk and Protect Patients

Overview When a medical device is subject to a recall, manufacturers are responsible for informing their affected customers—healthcare providers, retailers, and distributors—to prevent use of t...

Webcast | A First Look at ECRI's Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2023

Overview ECRI’s annual list of Top 10 Health Technology Hazards identifies the health technology concerns that warrant the greatest attention by healthcare leaders. Now in its 16th year, the li...