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ECU 2010 Haymo Thiel DC, MSc, PhD, DipMEd
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Haymo Thiel is Vice-Principal and Associate Professor at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic. His research interests are on the subjects of patient safety incident reporting, clinical risk management and treatment outcomes related to manual therapies of the cervical spine. |
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Lecture
Session 1A
09.00-10.30 |
Reaching Clinical Quality Management at a European Level – Patient Safety
Quality management includes all the activities that organisations use to direct, control, and coordinate quality. These activities usually include formulating a quality policy and setting quality objectives. One of the many subjects encompassed by health care and clinical quality management includes that of patient safety.
Providing health care of any kind, including provision of chiropractic treatment, can be a complex and, at times, risky activity. Safety in healthcare cannot be guaranteed; it can only be improved. The capturing and recording of information on patient safety incidents, and analysing this information are essential steps to reduce and manage risk and ultimately improve patient safety. With this in mind the first chiropractic incident reporting systems within Europe started to be developed in England and Switzerland, and both countries have now established national online reporting systems.
In 2009, the Executive Council of the European Chiropractors’ Union (ECU), involved in the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) process of the chiropractic profession, and the European Academy of Chiropractic, responsible for European Graduate Education Programmes, have set upon establishing European Guidelines for Critical Incident & Reporting Systems for a number of reasons: (1) To facilitate patients’ care with maximum chance of benefit and with minimum risk of harm, (2) to define training objectives for Graduate Education Programmes in Europe, and (3) to define incident reporting for future CEN standards.
These guidelines will be the result of a collaborative effort, involving experts, researchers, practitioners, patients, ECU representatives, as well as politicians. |
Workshop 6
Session 3A/4A
14.30-18.00 |
Case Presentations & Discussion: Presentations and Audience Participation in Diagnosis and Clinical Decision Making
Panel Member |
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