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04 ｜ Health Care

Table 4-5 2022-2023 Taiwan Patient Safety Goals for Hospitals and Clinics

No. Taiwan Patient Safety Goals for Hospitals
1 Improve teamwork and communication among healthcare professionals
Create a Culture of Safety, Healthcare organizations resilience, and implementing
2 adverse event management

3 Improve surgical safety
4 Prevention falls and reduce patient harm resulting from falls
5 Improve medication safety
6 Implement infection control
7 Enhance the safety of medical catheters/tubing use
8 Encourage patients and families engagement in healthcare safety
9 Safe maternal and newborn care

No. Taiwan Patient Safety Goals for Clinics
1 Improve effective communication

2 Improve medication safety
3 Improve surgical safety
4 Prevent falls
5 Implement infection control
6 Safe maternal and newborn care
Source: Taiwan Patient Safety Net, Department of Medical Affairs, MOHW, R.O.C. (Taiwan)

Section 2 Reforming the Hospital countries worldwide. In 2002, the MOHW established
the "Taiwan Organ Sharing Registry and Patient
Accreditation System
The MOHW is reforming the hospital accreditation Autonomy Promotion Center" to promote organ
system with patient safety and quality of medical care donation and allocation. As of the end of 2023, there
as its core concerns. The reform aims to improve have been a total of 11,142 individuals on the waiting
the specificity of accreditation standards, strengthen list for organ transplantation in Taiwan. However, only
the linkage between accreditation standards and about 1,000 peoples are fortunate enough to receive
continuous monitoring indicators, and align with organ transplants each year on average, as show
international accreditation systems and trends. in Figure 4-5. Efforts have been made to encourage
2020-2022, hospital and teaching hospital people to sign organ donation consent dorms
evaluations were suspended; validity of accreditation during their lifetime. In 2023, a total of 27,821 organ
of hospitals accredited 2016-2019 was extended by donation consent forms were completed, bringing the
three years. In 2023, a total of 157 hospitals passed cumulative total to 558,137 forms.
the hospital accreditation, and 61 hospitals passed the Section 4 Promoting Electronic Medical
teaching hospital accreditation.
Records (EMR) Adoption
Section 3 Organ Donations and In 2023, six types of electronic medical record
Transplantations exchange forms were planned for conversion to the Fast
The imbalance between organ supply and Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) international
demand remains a common challenge faced by standard. Taiwan's core implementation guide (TW Core

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