Guidelines for Analyzing the Causes of Medical Incidents at Healthcare Facilities

06:04, 11/07/2024

Recently, Circular 43/2018/TT-BYT has been issued by the Ministry of Health, providing Guidelines on Prevention of Medical Incidents at Medical Examination and Treatment Facilities.

According to the new regulations, when medical incidents occur, medical examination and treatment facilities must conduct an analysis to identify the cause and address it. The analysis should be conducted as follows:

- The department responsible for receiving and managing medical incidents will perform a preliminary analysis regarding the severity and frequency of all recorded incidents. They will propose a list of medical incidents and corresponding expert analysis teams, and report to the head of the facility on a weekly basis. For incidents classified as medium injury (NC2) and severe injury (NC3), an immediate report must be made to the head of the facility.- The head of the medical examination and treatment facility is responsible for establishing an expert team to directly conduct a root cause analysis and identify contributing factors to the medical incident.- Within 60 days from the date of receiving the report, the medical incident analysis from the department responsible for receiving and managing medical incidents, the expert analysis team must propose solutions and preventive recommendations for their unit.

More details can be found in Circular 43/2018/TT-BYT, which takes effect from March 1, 2019.

- Thanh Lam -

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