Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee

The committee's areas of work are creating and implementing the institution's quality improvement and patient safety program and, accordingly, designing clinical and administrative processes, collecting data on the processes, analyzing the data, planning and implementing the necessary improvements, and sustaining the changes that result in improvement. In this context, the committee carries out the following activities:

• - Ensuring the selection of indicators to monitor the quality of services provided in the hospital, the collection of data on these indicators, the analysis of the data, and the validation of the analysis data,
• - Defining a process for identifying and managing sentinel (serious), adverse (unwanted, unexpected), no-harm and near-miss events, receiving feedback through a defined process, and performing root cause analysis for serious events and taking measures to prevent their recurrence,
• - Ensuring that improvements are planned and implemented with the findings obtained from the analysis,
• - Running a proactive risk program to identify adverse events and other safety threats to patients and employees.