PHP162 - Patient Safety Programme In KBK Districts Of Odisha, India

Abstract

The Development for society (DFS) is an non Governmental organization working in undivided KBK districts of Odisha in the area of Health, Nutrition, WASH including quality assurance & patient safety in hospitals at community level. ObjectivesPatient safety is the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care. The discipline of patient safety is the coordinated efforts to prevent harm, caused by the process of health care itself, from occurring to patients. The data on frequency and magnitude of avoidable adverse patient events in Odisha is not well known. The goal is to create a data base on frequency and magnitude of avoidable adverse patient safety events for further intervention to improve quality of care. MethodsSurgical Safety; Hand Hygiene; Management of Medication and Patient communication. ResultsDFS in collaboration with Indian Confederation for Healthcare Accreditation and other partners like WHO, patients group, Ministry of Health would create data base on patient safety, spell out clear-cut patient safety standards, train employees of hospitals (Primary health centres) including doctors & paramedics, ASHA (accredited social health activist) at village level, local nursing homes and clinics in spotting medical errors and adverse reactions as well as encourage them to report the same in order to create a "desi" database and to take suitable mitigation measures. The Patient safety data created would help in designing the standards which would be implemented on pilot basis in KBK districts of Odisha with support from Ministry of Health, Government of Odisha & other development partners including patient groups which would help in improving the quality of care in the PHCs of this regions thereby improving the health care quality in the hospitals (PHCs) at community level.