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Follow on Google News | Renewed call for healthcare providers in the UAE to closely monitor their ‘near misses’Educating patients and including them in their safety promotes awareness and better health standards
According to Ms Maya Mallat Yassine, Corporate Senior Risk Management & Patient Safety Officer, Abu Dhabi Health Services (SEHA) Ms Yassine will discuss the reporting and monitoring of near misses in the healthcare setting at the Patient Safety Middle East Exhibition & Conferences on the 4-6 October 2015 in Dubai, UAE. Despite the fact that healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals in the UAE have a mandatory duty to report medical errors, this is still not a routine process in the UAE and the region. Factors including fear of repercussion from multiple perspectives (potential loss of employment, fear of reprisal and malpractice litigation, fear of losing license to practice) act as major detriments to the reporting of errors. “Active error management requires accurate and timely information about adverse events and near misses, and the lack of data on the occurrence of errors is one of the greatest impediments to error-reduction efforts in healthcare. Continuous efforts should therefore be made to support and encourage the reporting of errors in a fair and transparent environment, as error reporting continues to be an important means to identify and analyse failures, and design interventions to reduce risks to future patients,” says Ms Yassine. End
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