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Healthcare quality standards
Dr..
Alaa Jarad
Garad@alaagarad.com
01 Feb 2021
The year 2021 began with a personal initiative to contribute to spreading the culture of quality and learning through a series of voluntary and specialized courses as well, and I did not face a challenge in preparing for any prior training like what happened to me this time, as the issue is complex, thorny and shocking also in terms of the low quality of health care in most countries of the world, Especially in the United States and Britain, which are the two countries to which people from different countries of the world come to seek treatment.
In Britain, according to the British Medical Journal, which is a prestigious journal that has a global reputation in scientific research, the number of drug errors in England alone, not the rest of Britain, annually reaches 237 million errors, whether in diagnosing medicine, dispensing it, or explaining how to use it, This costs the budget 98 million pounds sterling, and causes the death of 1,700 people annually. This is if the mistake is limited to patients who are given medicine and leave without staying in the hospital, but in the case of staying in the hospital for 14 days with the use of other health services, the The medication errors referenced here will cost the budget 1.6 billion pounds a year, with 22,303 patients dying.
More details can be found in English, and as soon as Medication Errors is written in England, the indicated study will appear.
As for the United States of America, it is not better off, and most workers in the medical sector and patient safety have knowledge of the famous report "To Err is Human" or To Err is Human. The report published in 2000 can also be searched and obtained, with shocking information, including that 98 A thousand people die annually due to direct medical errors, and a study was issued, finally, by the "Johns Hopkins" Foundation, and published by "CNBC", stating that the number of deaths due to medical errors annually exceeds 250 thousand. Indeed, medical errors contribute to a third of the number Deaths in the United States.
But the good side of this tragedy is that cases and errors are recorded, and they are studied, to find out their causes, and from here the Joint Accreditation Committee JCI issued six global goals for patient safety, which are also available, and can be viewed in Arabic and English, as many countries have legislated, seriously. In imposing medical accreditation, and requiring service providers to obtain accreditation, either internationally or according to national specifications and standards.
It is expected that commitment to the effective application of accreditation standards will lead to reducing medical and pharmacological errors, but the matter in the first and last place is related to culture and transparency, especially in recording and analyzing errors, as well as protecting doctors and staff working in the health sector, as the vast majority of errors can be avoided by following quality plans and mechanisms. .
In conclusion, I thank the health sector workers for the suffering and hardship they endure in light of the Corona pandemic.
God bless us and you.
• It is expected that adherence to the effective application of accreditation standards will reduce medical errors and medication errors.
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