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Quality of Care: the Court of Auditors Very Critical! - Health Care Today
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According to a report by the Court of Auditors, published on Monday 27 April, the quality of hospital care remains sluggish despite progress, and a poor evaluation of the latter results in damage amounting to EUR 33 million.
In France, the Court of Auditors, responsible for monitoring the regularity of the finances of public institutions, publishes a report on the improvement of the "quality of care". In this document, the court highlights the shortcomings of health institutions in the monitoring of care.
The Court of Auditors warns about the quality of care in France, a "major issue" with more than 11 billion euros of costs related to preventable damage and at least 4,000 deaths per year due to nosocomial diseases
The Court of Auditors points to a measure of the quality of care still lacking in health facilities and a persistent under-reporting of serious accidents.
The Court of Auditors highlights a massive underreporting of medical accidents in healthcare facilities, pointing out that several hundred thousand incidents go unnoticed each year in French hospitals and clinics.
Quality of care: the Court of Auditors very critical! - Health Care Today
In a report, the Court of Auditors draws a harsh observation on the policy of improving the quality of care in health establishments. Adverse events are largely under-reported, the indicators do not sufficiently target the results and the relevance of care, the culture of quality needs to be strengthened among caregivers by more fully integrating the role of the patient and finally there is no national policy to improve the quality of care. The …
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