[Decision Making Process for Safety Issues in Health Services and Technologies]
Kim S, Kim EJ, Kim YE, Kim SK, Tchoe HJ
Record ID 32014001098
Korean
Original Title:
보건의료기술 안전의제 선정과 의사결정 방안 연구
Authors' recommendations:
This study was performed to improve discussion and decision making on healthcare safety issues of the Healthcare Safety Advisory Committee of the NECA to support Korean Government safety policy making. For this purpose, we reviewed three countries' patient safety policy-making processes, including the UK, Australia, and the US.
The three countries considered in this study can be characterized by their patient safety initiatives. The UK has strong government initiative patient safety programs leaded by the Department of Health. Australia has the nongovernmental initiative of APSF, and the US has a governmental agency, the AHRQ initiative program.
We can draw several implications to facilitate better patient safety decision making in Korea by the Healthcare Safety Advisory Committee of the NECA. First, governmental initiatives for patient safety policy need to be strengthened to create supportive environment, including the establishment of an incident reporting system and related regulations. Second, governmental agencies should take the initiative for patient safety research and programs. They can be activated and facilitated with governmental funding and other supportive actions. Third, voluntary efforts to improve patient safety by nongovernmental organizations, especially medical societies, need to be activated. It will be important to have close relationships among the governmental agencies, including the NECA, the Healthcare Accreditation body, and patient safety organizations for the efficient and stable safety issuing mechanism of the Healthcare Safety Advisory Committee.
Details
Project Status:
Completed
Year Published:
2014
URL for published report:
https://www.neca.re.kr/lay1/program/S1T11C145/report/view.do?seq=113
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
South Korea
MeSH Terms
- Health Services
- Decision Making
Contact
Organisation Name:
National Evidence-based healthcare Collaborating Agency
Contact Address:
National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency (NECA), 3~5F Health and Welfare Social Administration B/D, 400 Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, Korea.
Contact Name:
int@neca.re.kr
Contact Email:
int@neca.re.kr
Copyright:
National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency (NECA)
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