Patient Assessment Committee

The committee's areas of work are collecting information and data about the patient's physical, psychological and social status and health history, and analyzing this data and information, including laboratory and radiological diagnostic test results, to determine the patient's health care needs. In this context, the committee carries out the following activities:

• - Ensuring that the content of patients' initial assessment is determined and implemented in line with standards,
• - Ensuring that the frequency of initial physician and nurse assessments and of reassessments is determined and implemented as determined,
• - Ensuring that patients' nutritional status, functional status and pain assessments are made by qualified persons and recorded in the patient file,
• - Ensuring that customized initial assessment criteria are determined and implemented for special patient groups (children, terminal-stage patients, patients receiving chemotherapy, and those with emotional and psychological disorders),
• - Ensuring that result turnaround times are defined for the laboratory, radiology and blood bank and that results are provided within the defined times,
• - Ensuring that the safety risks to which laboratory and radiology staff may be exposed are identified, and that a safety program is created and implemented,
• - Ensuring that laboratory and radiology medical devices and equipment are inspected, maintained, repaired and calibrated at regular intervals,
• - Ensuring that the processes of collecting, transporting and receiving laboratory samples are planned, implemented and monitored,
• - Ensuring that a quality control program is implemented to monitor the accuracy and precision of laboratory and radiology test methods,
• - Ensuring that, when services are obtained from other laboratories, the process is planned and implemented in a way that does not disrupt the service or patient safety.