Safe care in oral health.

1. Safe care in oral health. Baltic Dental Meeting 21.-22.09.12. Palanga, Lithuania Dana Romane Irena Delle

2. Safe care. Safe care is fundamental to high-quality health care, in which the treatments used lead to the expected results, without causing risks or injuries to patients.

3. Safe care. In order to prevent health care leading to adverse events, care providers must have a well-developed management system for quality and patient safety, and must actively carry out risk prevention work. This includes continuous work on setting objectives, following up, analysing and providing feedback of the results to all levels within the organisation.

4. Patient safety. • Patient safety is a fundamental principle of health care. • Every point in the process of care-giving contains a certain degree of inherent unsafety. • Adverse events may result from problems in practice, products, procedures or systems.

5. Patient safety. • Patient safety improvements demand a complex system-wide effort, involving a wide range of actions in performance improvement, environmental safety and risk management, including infection control, safe use of medicines, equipment safety, safe clinical practice and safe environment of care.

6. Patient safety. • In Latvia at present are several laws and regulations, related to ensuring patient’s safety, effective in the country.

7. Patient’s Rights Law. • The aim of this law is to facilitate favourable relationship between a patient and provider of health care services, promoting active participation of patients in their health care as well as providing them with an opportunity to implement and protect their rights and interests.

8. Medical Treatment Law. • The aim of this law is to regulate the public relations in medical treatment, in order to ensure qualified precautions and diagnostics of illnesses or trauma as well as qualitative treatment and rehabilitation of a patient.

9. Epidemiological Safety Law. • The aim of this law is to regulate the epidemiological safety and to establish the rights and obligations of the public institutions, the municipalities, and physical and legal entities in the field of epidemiological safety as well as to lay down the responsibility for the violation of this law.

10. Personal Data Protection Law. • The purpose of this Law is to protect the fundamental human rights and freedoms of people, and in particular their right to privacy with respect to the processing of personal data.

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