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CONTENTS

Foreword By The Director-General Of Health Malaysia 2
Foreword By The Deputy Director-General Of Health (Medical) 4
Message By The Director Of Nursing, Malaysia 6
Advisors 7
Technical Coordinators 8
Acknowledgement 9

Introduction 12
Background 13
Objectives 14

13 Patient Safety Goals :
No. 1 : Implementation Of Clinical Governance 16

No. 2 : To Implement The WHO’s 1st Global Patient Safety Challenge :
”Clean Care Is Safer Care” 19
No. 3 : “Safe Surgery Saves Lives” 24
No. 4 : To Implement The WHO’s 3rd Global Patient Safety Challenges -
“Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance” 33
No. 5 : To Improve The Accuracy Of Patient Identification 40
No.6 : To Ensure The Safety Of Transfusion Of Blood And Blood
Products. 42
No. 7 : To Ensure Medication Safety 48
No. 8 : To Improve Clinical Communication By Implementing

Critical Value Program 56
No. 9 : To Reduce Patient Falls 62
No.10 : To Reduce The Incidence Of Healthcare Associated
Pressure Ulcer 69
No.11 : To Reduce Catheter- Related Blood Stream Infections
(CRBSI) In The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) 74
No.12 : To Reduce Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
(VAP) In ICU 83
No.13 :To Implement Incident Reporting And Learning System 95

Reference 96