Impact of Accreditation on Healthcare Professionals' Knowledge on Quality Management

Background

A study by Leape L on Medical Errors and Patient Safety suggests an estimate of 1 in every 300 patients dies due to preventable medical errors during care delivery, making patient safety a worldwide concern. According to WHO (2019) whereas there is a 1 in 3 million risks of a passenger dying while traveling in an aircraft. In developed countries as many as 1 in 10 patients gets harmed during hospitalization, whereas in developing countries, the probability is even higher as much as 20 times higher in some countries. According to facts studied by Tiernan PM. (2011) regarding facts about patient safety, at any given time, 1.4 Million people worldwide suffer from infections acquired in hospitals.

Medical errors can lead to a patient receiving a wrong medicine, a clinician misreading the results of a test, a missed diagnosis by a treating doctor, the patient being operated on the wrong part, etc. According to Brennan, Leape, Laird, et al. (1991), all these errors lead to preventable injury in as many as 1 out of every 25 hospital patients. According to Auckland, Mavic, Von Plessen, Nieder and Vonen, B (2019) in Norway, patients who die in hospitals experience seven times the rate of serious adverse events.