2020 Volume 57 Issue 1 Pages 20-27
Rehabilitation counseling centers are local government agencies based on both the Act on Welfare of Physically Disabled Persons and the Act on Welfare of Mentally Retarded Persons. They are also defined as non-bed clinic based on the Medical Care Act. In addition to the committee of occupational health and safety management which was already established, we have established new policy of patient safety and started a reporting system of incident/accident cases from April 2017. This study was performed to summarize one-year practice of our patient safety as well as reviewing the past accidental reports in our center. For one year, eleven cases which are ten cases of incident and one case of accident were reported. 8 cases, which were most cases, were issues of informative security in contrast with the past reports in which physical issues like falls were the most. All reports were informed all staffs of identifying causes and their preventions in each case. We conclude that making the patient safety policy/reporting system based on the Medical Care Act was useful of forming a new safety culture in rehabilitation counseling centers.
