The objective of World Patient Safety Day is to raise awareness and community engagement, enhance understanding, and drive global solidarity and action among member states to promote patient safety.
World Patient Safety Day is one of the World Health Organization (WHO) global public health days that was launched in 2019 and is celebrated annually on September 17.
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| The objective of World Patient Safety Day is to raise awareness and community engagement, enhance understanding, and drive global solidarity and action among member states to promote patient safety. |
World Patient Safety Day is a platform to promote global patient health and safety. The day is built on the fundamental principle of medicine: “First do no harm”.
The objective of World Patient Safety Day is to raise awareness and community engagement, enhance understanding, and drive global solidarity and action among member states to promote patient safety.
Each year, a new theme is chosen for World Patient Safety Day to highlight an area of patient safety that requires urgent and coordinated priority action.
The theme of World Patient Safety Day 2024 is “Improving diagnosis for patient safety” with the slogan “Get it right, make it safe! – Accurate diagnosis, safe treatment!”, emphasizing the importance of accurate and timely diagnosis in ensuring patient safety and improving treatment outcomes.
Accurate diagnosis of a health problem is key to accessing care and treatment. Diagnostic error is the failure to provide an accurate and timely explanation of a patient's health problem, which may include late diagnosis, incorrect diagnosis, missed diagnosis, or failure to explain the diagnosis to the patient.
Diagnostic safety can be significantly improved by addressing system-based issues and cognitive factors that can lead to diagnostic errors.
Systemic factors are organizational flaws that lead to diagnostic errors, including communication failures between health care professionals or between health care professionals and patients; high workloads; and ineffective teamwork. Cognitive factors relate to clinician training and experience, as well as bias, fatigue, and stress.
The goal of World Patient Safety Day 2024 is to raise global awareness of how diagnostic errors contribute to patient harm and to highlight the important role that accurate, timely and safe diagnosis plays in improving patient safety.
Promote diagnostic safety in patient safety policies and clinical practices at all levels of health care, in line with the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030.
Promote collaboration among policy makers, health managers, health workers, patients and other stakeholders in promoting accurate, timely and safe diagnosis.
Empower patients and families to actively engage with healthcare professionals and health managers to improve diagnostic processes.
The key messages of the campaign are that accurate and timely diagnosis is the first step to effective preventive and treatment interventions.
Diagnostic errors account for 16% of preventable harm and are common in all healthcare settings. Diagnostic errors can include missed diagnoses, misdiagnoses, delayed diagnoses, or miscommunicated diagnoses.
They can worsen patient outcomes and sometimes lead to prolonged or serious illness, even death, along with increased health care costs.
Understanding the diagnostic process is key to minimizing errors.
The diagnostic process involves several iterative steps, namely: patient history presentation; history taking and clinical examination; diagnostic testing, consultation and communication of results; collaboration and coordination of specialists; final diagnosis and treatment planning; follow-up and reassessment. Errors can occur at any stage.
There are many solutions to resolve the diagnostic error.
Policy makers and health managers should promote positive work environments and provide quality diagnostic tools; health workers should be encouraged to continually develop their skills and address unconscious bias in judgment; and patients should be supported to actively participate throughout their diagnostic process.
Diagnosis is a team effort.
Accurate and timely diagnosis requires collaboration between patients, families, caregivers, health care professionals, health administrators and policy makers. All stakeholders must be involved in shaping the diagnostic process and empowered to voice any concerns.
According to statistics from Vietnam Social Security, it is estimated that by the end of June 2024, the whole country will record over 89.5 million inpatient and outpatient health insurance examination and treatment visits, an increase of 7.91% over the same period in 2023...
According to statistics from Vietnam Social Security, by the end of 2023, the whole country will have about 93.6 million people participating in health insurance, with the health insurance coverage rate reaching nearly 93.35% of the population, approaching the goal of universal health insurance.
Along with that, the work of resolving and paying health insurance regimes is well implemented. People's access to health insurance examination and treatment services is increasingly expanded.
It is estimated that by the end of June 2024, the whole country will have about 89.552 million people receiving inpatient and outpatient health insurance medical examination and treatment, an increase of 6.563 million people (equivalent to an increase of 7.91%) compared to the same period in 2023. The amount of appraisal and payment is more than 66.92 trillion VND.
The increase in the number of people participating in health insurance, as well as the increase in the number of health insurance examinations and treatments nationwide, shows that health insurance policy is going in the right direction.
At the same time, it becomes a significant financial source, contributing with the State budget to the work of protecting and effectively caring for people's health.
However, that also increases pressure on the Health Insurance Fund management agency to ensure fund safety, for the purpose of protecting the legitimate rights of health insurance participants.
Source: https://baodautu.vn/hanh-dong-toan-cau-ve-an-toan-nguoi-benh-d225061.html
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