Patient Safety
At Asia MD, we believe patient safety is fundamental to providing quality healthcare services. We advocate the awareness and building a culture of patient safety to support healthcare institutions in Asia to deliver their best.
The global landscape of health care is changing and health systems operate in increasingly complex environments. While new treatments, technologies and care models can have therapeutic potential, they can also pose novel threats to safe care. Patient safety is now being recognized as a large and growing global public health challenge.
* World Health Organization. (2019). Patient safety- Global action on patient safety. Report by the Director-General. Retrieved from: https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA72/A72_26-en.pdf
Mixing oral supplements with existing medicine
Combining supplements with physician-prescribed medication is widely practised but this practice is neither medically approved nor are its benefits research-backed.
How do hospitals and clinics ensure patient and medication safety?
Four leading health care institutions in Singapore share about their world class quality patient safety culture and practice. Medication safety is one of the main concerns in upholding patient safety.
What Patients Can Do to Improve Patient Safety?
We seek medical care to get better, but sometimes errors can happen and result in unnecessary avoidable harm. Any treatment and procedure carry inherent risk of harm, but this can be avoided and prevented if both patients and health care staffs become active members of the health care team.
