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Hospital Authority publishes risk management bulletins
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The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority:

    Two regular publications to promote risk management among healthcare professionals in public hospitals ¡V the "HA Risk Alert" and the "Medication Incident Reporting Programme" (MIRP) Bulletin are published today (July 25) by the Hospital Authority. 

    The authority implemented a Sentinel Event Policy in October last year as a risk management and communication initiative to further strengthen the reporting and monitoring of adverse incidents in public hospitals.

    Important lessons of patient safety identified from the root cause analyses during incident investigations will be collated and shared among healthcare professionals in the bi-monthly publication "HA Risk Alert".

    The latest issue of "HA Risk Alert" features a recent case of retained gauze in a patient, alongside recommendations to avoid similar events in future.  Common pitfalls in local and overseas healthcare settings are also highlighted to enhance staff vigilance.  In particular, a number of recommendations are made to prevent loss of personal identifiable data.

    With particular focus on medication issues, the MIRP was first established in 1994 as a continuous quality improvement initiative through regular case sharing and statistical analysis of reported incidents.  In this latest issue, the bulletin highlights four cases for sharing with recommendations to prevent recurrence of incidents of similar nature.  The MIRP bulletin is published every six months.

    Both publications have been distributed to the healthcare professionals in public hospitals for continuous quality improvement purpose and can be accessed by the public at http://www.ha.org.hk/riskalert and http://www.ha.org.hk/ho/mirp.

Ends/Friday, July 25, 2008
Issued at HKT 18:06

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