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Author Victoria. Audit Office

Title Managing patient safety in public hospitals / Auditor General, Victoria
Published [Melbourne] : Government Printer, 2005

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Description viii, 88 pages ; 25 cm
Series P.P. ; no. 121, session 2003-05
Parliamentary paper (Victoria. Parliament) ; session 2003-2005, no. 121
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1.2 Are clinical risk management frameworks and systems rigorous? 4 -- 1.3 Are clinical risk management practices effective? -- 1.4 Are people issues managed effectively? 6 -- 1.5 Is performance monitoring and reporting effective? -- 2. CLINICAL RISK MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC HOSPITALS 11 -- 2.1 Introduction 13 -- 2.2 W hat are clinical incidents? 13 -- 2.3 How often do clinical incidents occur? 15 -- 2.4 W hy do clinical incidents occur? 16 -- 2.5 The patient safety system 18 -- 2.6 Victoria's initiatives in patient safety 21 -- 2.7 Conduct of the audit , 22 -- 3. ARE HEALTH SERVICE CLINICAL RISK MANAGEMENT -- FRAMEWORKS AND SYSTEMS RIGOROUS? 25 -- 3.1 Introduction 27 -- 3.2 Integrated risk management 27 -- 3.3 Health service quality committees 28 -- 3.4 Policies and procedures 30 -- 3.5 Incident reporting and management systems 33 -- 3.6 C onclusions 37 -- 4. ARE HEALTH SERVICE CLINICAL RIS MANAGEMENT -- PRACTICES EFFECTIVET? 39 -- 41 Introduction 41 -- 4.2 Identifying incidents 41 -- 4.3 Reporting and recording incidents 45 -- 4.4 Incident risk rating 46 -- 4.5 Investigating incidents 48 -- 4.6 Responding to clinical incidents 50 -- 4.7 Conclusions 51 -- 5 AE PEOPLE ISSES MANAGED EFFECTIVELY? 55 -- 5.1 Introduction 57 -- 5.2 Training staff to manage clinical incidents 57 -- 5.3 Com m unication 61 -- 5.4 C onclusions 64 -- 6. IS PATIENT SAFETY PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND -- REPORT ING EFFECTIVE? 67 -- 6.1 Introduction 69 -- 6.2 Health service reporting to boards 69 -- 6.3 M onitoring performance 7 72 -- 6.4 Performance improvement 78 -- 6.5 C on clu sion s 81
Notes At head of cover : "Auditor-General's report"
"March 2005"--Cover
"2005:2"--Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Also available via the World Wide Web
Subject Hospitals -- Safety measures.
Medical errors -- Prevention.
Hospitals -- Australia -- Victoria -- Administration.
Patients.
Risk management.
LC no. 2006445652
ISBN 1921060026