Clinical risk management for medical for medical personnel in Chumphon Khet Udomsakdi Hospital

Abstract

The objective of this research was to measure the level of clinical risk management and study factors related to clinical risk management of medical personnel in Chumphon Khet Udomsakdi hospital. The samples consisted of 260 medical personnel, who directly provide medical services. Self-administered questionnaire is used for data collection. The content validity was explored by 3 experts. The reliabilities test using the Cronbach’s alpha coefficients in parts 2 and 3 were 0.805 and 0.957 respectively. Data were analyzed by the frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation and Pearson’s correlation test.

            The results revealed that. The Most of the sample were female (94.2%), aged between 22-30 years (57.7%), registered nurses (86.2%), bachelor's degree (96.20%), working hours 41-50 hours/week (36.20%), and the working period in hospital between 3-5 years (35.8%). The Overall clinical risk management of medical personnel was high level ( =3.57, S.D.=0.63). The correlation analysis found that the unsafe act, unsafe supervision and organization influence, there was a correlation with clinical risk management with statistically significant (r= - 0.906, r = 0.682 and r = 0.430 (p < 0.05)) respectively.     

Therefore, personnel should be encouraged to risks identification proactively from operations and study and learn about risk incidents from other unit to analyze the severity, frequency and potential loss. The executive important to the clinical risk management system, by assigning persons with roles to control, supervise, monitor and determine measures to prevent unsafe act of medical personnel.