National initiatives to promote quality of care and patient safety: achievements to date and challenges ahead

Table 5 Indicators of patient safety over time [60]

Indicator	Performance, 2017	Performance, 2019
Patient identification in the ED	79%	80%
Patient identification in the imaging department	83%	86%
Pre-operative data verification	93%	92%
Counting of items during and at conclusion of surgery	95%	85%
Training staff in patient safety	65%	89%
Performing safety round according to MOH methodology	57%	89%
Performing quality improvement projects using PDSA methodology	82%	96%
Performing root-cause analysis of sentinel events using 5 M methodology	96%	100%

Bold print represents substantial improvement in comparison with previous time point (see Methods section)
ED emergency department, MOH Ministry of Health, PDSA Plan-do-study-act

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