(ANSA) – ROME, SEPTEMBER 17 – “Patient safety is the compass that guides the work of Italian healthcare companies and hospitals. In fact, all (95%) of healthcare companies have defined specific procedures for reducing clinical errors and managing anomalies”. The president of the Italian Federation of Healthcare Companies and Hospitals (Fiaso), Giovanni Migliore, highlighted the data that emerged from a recent survey conducted in collaboration with the Catholic University of Rome on the occasion of the sixth World Day for Safety of Care promoted by the World Health Organization.
“We need to tell – Migliore points out – the daily effort of the structures to improve diagnostic processes guaranteeing patient safety, starting from the prevention of errors, promoting the indispensable alliance between citizens, institutions and healthcare workers. Local health authorities and hospitals are on the front line to ensure ‘clinical risk management’, that is, the management of clinical risk in the healthcare sector, through fundamental strategies to improve the quality of healthcare services and guarantee patient safety”.
A challenge that must involve everyone, but which must also include effective management of the demand for services. “Without appropriateness there can be no true safety of care and assistance. An even more current issue at this time,” Migliore continues, “because everything we do to improve the quality of care certainly also contributes to reducing possible episodes of aggression towards doctors and healthcare workers.”
Ensuring patient safety and preventing diagnostic and therapeutic errors, in addition to being a fundamental objective for the protection of citizens’ health, Migliore concludes, “allows to minimize the risk of litigation and also the heavy economic repercussions for health companies, which are often self-insured”. (ANSA).
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