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  1. Empowering the patients in patient safety program

    It has been well recognized internationally that hospitals are not as safe as they should be. In order to redress this situation, health care services around the world have turned their attention to strategically implementing robust patient safety and quality care program to identify circumstances that put patients at risk of harm and then acting to prevent or control those risks In my hospital the patient safety program has been implemented for 10 months. During the implementation period, the team continuously encouraging all the staffs for actively reporting. The self assessment result for patient safety activities was 77% (using hospital accreditation criteria). The team has 2 weekly meeting agenda for discussing and reviewing the incident reporting. During theses 10 months, the team has received 45 cases of incident reporting. The members of team actively collect the data by interviewing the medical staffs from various facilities. Most of the cases are in category of “near miss”, and “adverse events”. The data showed that most of the incident are related to drug/ blood products and medical equipment. Root cause analysis of several cases showed that inadequate communication and inappropriate team working are the main causes of the incident. The effort for promoting patient safety and reducing error The team and hospital leader continuously encouraging the medical staffs for incident reporting. The interesting finding is 29% of the incident reporting come from the patients and family. The article from Dr. Wasson, et.al. is very interesting. The use of information technology will make the reporting system easier, faster, and enabling of early identification. The online system can sure that the system will be working in 24 hours a day. Appropriate action can be taken for preventing further injury. The other important thing is to educate the patients and family for identifying the adverse events, and report the adverse events immediately.

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