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Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital recently organised the second national conference ‘ABMH QIPS 2014’ on quality improvement and patient safety at Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital Auditorium. Reportedly, the two-day conference witnessed more than 200 participants including speakers and delegates from all over India. Eminent CEOs, COOs, Medical Administrators, Quality Heads from hospitals like Apollo Hospital, New Delhi; Medishield Hospital, Mumbai; Fortis Hospital, Mumbai and Mohali; Seven Hills Hospital, Mumbai; Care Hospital, Hyderabad; SPS Apollo Hospital, Ludhiana; BJ Medical, BD Medical and NABH amongst others, discussed various factors to deliver quality and safety to patients.
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During the conference various approaches, practices and methodologies were shared amongst the delegates to bring about an improvement in healthcare delivery in their own hospitals, which in turn would result in rendering quality services for better patient care and safety. Paper and poster presentation sessions were also arranged which enabled the participants to showcase various initiatives undertaken by them to improve the quality of patient care at their respective hospitals.
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Emphasis on the following factors was given to deliver quality and safe care to patients. Some of the factors included:
- Legal aspects of patient safety – Focus on peer group review
- Innovative methods of quality improvement
- Clinical audit – How to get it in right perspective?
- Enhancing interdisciplinary collaborative care for superior patient safety
- Why accreditation at all? pros and cons
- Involvement of clinicians in quality and patient safety
- Human factors in patient safety – Retrospect and prospect?
- Measurable goals in clinical practice – How to implement in real world scenario?
- Patient safety leadership walk rounds
- Antibiotic stewardship: Difficult challenge
- Infection control with limited resources – Role of innovative strategies
- Linked nurses – Key to infection control practices
- Nosocomial fungal infection
- Panel discussion
- The role of IT in quality improvement and patient safety
- Patient family education to improve safety outcomes
“We are happy to organise this event the second time and it again turned out to be a grand success. This sort of conference helps us to review the current status of healthcare delivery in terms of patients’ safety and sensitise the healthcare professionals and policy makers on the innovative and evolving concepts and strategies to improve the quality of patient care and safety in India. We hope to take this event to the next level in our next conference to improve the overall healthcare delivery in India,” said Rekha Dubey, COO, Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital.
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