PATIENT SAFETY UNIT

1. Introduction to The Course
Patient Safety Unit
Quality in Medical Care Section
Ministry of Health Malaysia
@ Secretariat, Patient Safety Council Malaysia
In Collaboration with :
Patient Safety Module Technical Committee
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2. Introduction
• This course is intended to give an overview about important
areas related to patient safety.
• It comprises of six topics;
1. What is patient Safety-the basic concept
2. Safe Surgery
3. Effective communication to improve patient safety
4. Infection prevention and control, Antimicrobial resistance
5. Medication safety
6. Incident reporting and learning from error
• Patient safety is very important in clinical care because patient
come to us to get better and rightly expect that they will not be
harm by the treatment we give to them.
• It is hoped that this course will give sufficient knowledge for
junior healthcare professionals to practice safely.
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3. Key Messages
• Patient safety is absence
of preventable harm
during process of care
• Safe surgery checklist can
prevent wrong surgery
and unintended retained
foreign body
• Ineffective
communication among
staff or between staff and
patient may lead to
incident/error
• Hand hygiene
compliance is effective in
preventing healthcare
associated infection

4. Key Messages
• Inappropriate use of
antibiotic can lead to
antimicrobial resistance
• Patient safety incident
need to be reported. We
need to learn from error
and prevent similar
incident from happening.
• Safe medicine
administration involves
Right Medicine
Right Route
Right Time
Right Patient
Right Dose
• Always remember that in
medication safety,
“simple mistake can be
lethal”

5. Always remember that as a Houseman YOU
have a big role to ensure your patient is safe.
Do no harm!!!
Be a SAFE Doctor

6. Acknowledgement
Advisor:
Datuk Dr Jeyaindran Tan Sri Sinnadurai
Dato’ Dr. Azman B. Abu Bakar
Dr Wan Mazlan B Mohamed Woojdy
Datuk Dr Rohaizat B. Hj Yon
Dr PAA Mohamed Nazir B Abdul Rahman
Technical Coordinator:
Dr. Nor ‘Aishah bt Abu Bakar
Dr. Mohd Suffian bin Mohd Dzakwan
Dr. Khairulina Haireen bt Khalid
Dr. Ahmad Muzammil bin Abu Bakar
Pn. Sharmila Mat Zain
*Thank you to those who have contributed
in the development of this module.
Any enquires please contact:
Patient Safety Unit
Medical Care Quality Section
Medical Development Division
Ministry of Health
Tel : 03 - 88831180
Fax: 03 - 88831176
Website :
http://patientsafety.moh.gov.my/v2
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