ECRI Now provides unique insights on pressing healthcare issues. In each episode, ECRI’s subject matter experts share their experience in relationship to the latest healthcare news.
Topics will range from ethical issues in healthcare, patient safety, infection control, healthcare IT and spend management across the continuum of care from health systems to non-acute care settings.
ECRI Now provides unique insights on pressing healthcare issues. In each episode, ECRI’s subject matter experts share their experience in relationship to the latest healthcare news.
Topics will range from ethical issues in healthcare, patient safety, infection control, healthcare IT and spend management across the continuum of care from health systems to non-acute care settings.
Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) came onto the market only recently, but are widely prescribed, displacing drugs that have been available since the 1950s. Jose Nery, a Safe Medication Management Fellow with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), discusses errors related to DOACs reported to ECRI and the ISMP Patient Safety Organization, and strategies that pharmacists and patients can use to limit those risks.