Feb 23 2012: No doubt, infrastructure is important but I believe that more than that what we require is behavioral and attitudinal change among healthcare providers towards safety and that requires training, monitoring and reinforcement.
Feb 23 2012: The very reason that these programs have not yet showed the outcome is the lack of safety culture. Today itself we were talking in our department that the use of laptops and mobile phones in OR are not acceptable and must be stopped. So yes it requires training to inculcate safety culture and change the mindset of surgeons, anesthetists and others if we want to improve the outcomes. And to improve the infrastructure and training for behavioral change, I believe a top down but participatory approach would be better to start with than a bottom up approach. The global funders must strengthen the Patient Safety movement for development of infrastructure and training. Beside this WHO's Health Promoting Hospital initiative can also contribute in reducing the post operative complications, ALS and consequent cost.
Feb 23 2012: Though Surgery is not included in MDG, but this is certainly an issue being addressed by WHO, JCI, World Alliance for Patient Safety and others. Surgical safety checklist is one of the tools which could minimize negligence. Improvement of Hand hygiene practices and rationale use of antibiotics are another areas which require adequate address to keep post operative complications to its minimum
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