Standards for consideration for topic-specific awards in Vietnam

Standards for consideration for topic-specific awards in Vietnam (Internet image)

1. Award forms in Vietnam 

- The national awards shall be conferred in the form of certificate and gold or silver cup.

- Topic-specific awards shall be conferred in the form of certificate and gold or silver award trophy.

(Article 5 of Circular 25/2020/TT-BYT)

2. Standards for topic-specific awards in Vietnam

2.1. Minimum standards in Vietnam

According to Clause 1, Article 7 of Circular 25/2020/TT-BYT, the minimum standards are as follow

- The hospital must obtain at least 3,75 points in the general hospital quality assessment performed by a regulatory authority according to the Hospital quality criteria promulgated by the Minister of Health and none of the criteria is assessed at level 2 in at least 02 consecutive years by the time of consideration;

- The hospital must obtain at least quality 4,00 points for topic-specific criteria as prescribed in Clause 2 of this Article;

- The hospital has developed the system for compulsory and voluntary reporting on medical events in accordance with the Minister of Health’s regulations on prevention of medical events in health facilities for 2 years or more.

It has not committed any medical errors causing death according to conclusions of the Professional Council as prescribed in the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment 2009 within at least 02 consecutive years by the time of consideration;

- The hospital has conducted patient and healthcare worker satisfaction surveys according to the Ministry of Health’s guidelines and achieved at least 85% of patient and healthcare worker satisfaction.

2.2. Specific standards for topic-specific awards in Vietnam

After obtaining the list of hospitals meeting the minimum standards prescribed in Section 1, the Quality assessment team of the Ministerial-level award consideration council shall re-assess the quality of topics according to the following specific criteria:

- Patient safety award: the criteria in C1.1, C1.2 and the entire of Party D of the Hospital quality criteria;

- Surgical safety award: the Surgical safety assessment criteria enclosed with the Decision No. 7482/QD-BYT dated December 18, 2018 of the Minister of Health;

-Clinical quality award: the criteria from C5.1 to C5.5 and Criteria C10.1 and C10.2 of the Hospital quality criteria;

- Testing quality award: the criteria C8.1, C8.2 of the Hospital quality criteria and the Criteria for quality assessment of medical laboratories enclosed with the Decision No. 2429/QD-BYT dated June 12, 2017 of the Minister of Health;

- Hospital pharmacy award: the criteria C9.1 to C9.6 of the Hospital quality criteria;

- Patient care award: the criteria A2.1 to A2.5, the criterion A4.2 and the criteria C6.1 to C6.3 of the Hospital quality criteria;

- Clinical nutrition award: the criteria C7.1 to C7.5 of the Hospital quality criteria;

- Bacterial contamination control award: the criteria A3.1, A3.2 and the criteria C4.1 to C4.6 of the Hospital quality criteria;

- Health workforce development award: the criteria in Party B of the Hospital quality criteria;

- Award for improvement of medical examination and treatment process: the criteria A1.1 to A1.6 and the criteria A4.1, A4.3, A4.4 of the Hospital quality criteria;

- Award for application of information technology in hospital: the criteria C2.1, C2.2 and the criteria C3.1, C3.2 of the Hospital quality criteria; m) Patient satisfaction award: the criteria A4.5, A4.6 of the Hospital quality criteria and regulations on patient and healthcare worker satisfaction in the Decision No. 3869/QD-BYT dated August 28, 2019 of the Minister of Health.

(Clause 2, Article 7 of Circular 25/2020/TT-BYT)

Thanh Rin

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