04 Principles for Preventing Medical Incidents

06:04, 11/07/2024

On December 26, 2018, the Ministry of Health issued Circular 43/2018/TT-BYT providing guidelines on preventing medical incidents in medical examination and treatment facilities.

According to Circular 43, the prevention of medical incidents must be implemented based on the following principles:

- The prevention of medical incidents should be based on identifying, reporting, analyzing to find the cause, providing preventive recommendations, avoiding recurrence of medical incidents to improve the quality of examination and treatment services, ensuring patient safety and not for other purposes.- The prevention of medical incidents is encouraged, motivated, and protected.- Records related to the prevention of medical incidents are managed under the information confidentiality regulations.- The prevention of medical incidents is the responsibility of both the leaders and medical staff working in medical examination and treatment facilities.

According to Circular 43, when a medical incident is detected, medical staff are responsible for identifying and distinguishing the medical incident according to described cases, situations development, and extent of injury.

See detailed guidelines at Circular 43/2018/TT-BYT, effective from March 1, 2019.

- Thanh Lam -

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