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Table 4-5 2020-2021 Taiwan Patient Safety Goals for Hospitals and Clinics
No.
Taiwan Patient Safety Goals for Hospitals
1
Promoting effective medical personnel communication and doctor–patient communication
2
Constructing a patient safety culture and implementing patient safety incident management
3
Improve surgical safety
4
Prevention of patient falls and reducing the degree of injury
5
Improve medication safety
6
Implementation infection control
7
Improve tube safety
8
Encourage patient and their family engagement
No.
Promoting effective medical personnel communication and doctor–patient communication
1
Improving effective communication
2
Improving medication safety
3
Improving surgical safety
4
Falls prevention
5
Implementing infection control
Source : Taiwan Patient Safety Net, Department of Medical Affairs, MOHW, R.O.C.(Taiwan)
3. The Shared Medical Decision Making Platform was established and as of the end of 2021, 50 decision support tools were uploaded to the platform to be used by medical personnel. A total of 131 hospitals participated in the promotion shared medical decision making.
4. The Hospital Accreditation Standards include regulations about a safe hospital environment, safe equipment, patient orientation services, healthcare quality, drug safety, anesthesia and operations, and infection control. These measures are hopefully tantamount to creating a safe hospital environment.
▏Section 2 Reforming the Hospital Accreditation System
The MOHW is reforming the hospital accreditation system with patient safety and quality of medical care as its core concerns. Taiwan intend to foster tangible reform, reduce the undue pressure that the accreditation process
puts on hospitals, simplify/clarify the Hospital Accreditation Standards, and ensure that Taiwan keeps pace with current international standards in hospital accreditation.
429 hospitals passed accreditation evaluation 2016-2019, with 134 teaching hospitals accredited; 2020-2022, hospital and teaching hospital evaluations were suspended; validity of accreditation of hospitals accredited 2016- 2019 was extended by three years.
▏Section 3 Organ Donations and Transplantations
The world is facing a shortage of available organs for transplantation. As of the end of 2021, over 10,487 patients in Taiwan awaited organ transplantation; however, only about 1,000 patients annually are able to receive an organ transplant (Figure 4-4). The Ministry has continued to promote the measure to encourage people to sign the consent for organ donation.
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