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Healthcare Quality

Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2025

AI-enabled health technologies soared from 5th in 2024 to the top of ECRI’s annual top 10 health technology hazards for 2025. This jump in ranking underscores the growing concerns over AI’s potential for misuse and oversight challenges, as its adoption accelerates across the healthcare sector. Unmet technology support needs for home care patients and tech vendor risk and cybersecurity threats make up the top three hazards.

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QUASR Team 15 December 2024
Healthcare Quality

The importance of near miss reporting in healthcare

Near miss reporting is crucial in improving patient safety and preventing harm. It helps in early detection of potential risks and hazards, improves safety culture and awareness, and promotes transparency and accountability.

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QUASR Team 15 October 2024
Healthcare Quality

Five Common RCA Mistakes

The effectiveness of RCA can be undermined by common mistakes during the RCA process. Here are five common mistakes to avoid.

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QUASR Team 1 October 2024
Healthcare Quality

Incident Categorization in Healthcare: What You Need to Know

There are different ways to categorize incidents in healthcare settings. Incident categorization can be based on various criteria such as risk, severity, impact on patients, urgency, stage/process, and the nature or consequence of incidents. There are industry guidelines on categorizing or rating incidents for specific incident types.

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QUASR Team 4 August 2024
Healthcare Quality

Fall Prevention in Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Falls occur at all ages but are common among older people. According to some studies, falls occur in 30% of adults aged over 65 annually. Falls are a common reason that older people are admitted to hospital.

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QUASR Team 20 July 2024
Healthcare Quality

Key Findings: Safety Incident Reporting in Care Homes

In this blog, we are sharing the key findings on safety incident reporting in care homes in a paper published by the Journal of Advanced Nursing. The study was a systematic review on the types of safety incidents, the processes and systems used for safety incident reporting in the care home sector.

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QUASR Team 9 July 2024
Patient Safety

Burden of Harm to the Patients

In this blog post, we are sharing the key messages on the burden of unsafe care taken from the Global Patient Safety Report 2024 published by WHO. Our focus is on the report’s key findings and analysis of patient harm by medical setting/clinical domain and by source of harm.

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QUASR Team 1 July 2024
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