These reports and tools are available to the general public as part of ECRI Institute’s mission to help others find new approaches to improving patient safety. Many are derived from our Health Devices System.
Medical Device Safety Reports Database
This periodically updated, searchable database provides a review of the types of problems that have occurred with medical devices as well as the lessons learned over the past three decades. It focuses on the steps that medical device users can take to prevent or reduce medical device risks to patients and healthcare workers.