Risk Management and Risk indicators working group 16th EPSO conference, Copenhagen, September 17th 2013
Pilot survey (may-june 2013) A pilot survey designed with Jooske Vos, tested with 7 member states : - understanding of items, - description of practices, - allowing benchmarking
10 items
With participation of EPSO members from: Denmark Sweden Netherlands England Portugal Turkey France 7 answers
First results 1. Risk is used as a topic to find out : –Where to inspect (5/7) –What to inspect (7/7) –How to inspect (3/7) 2. What kind of risks –Safety risks for patient (7/7) –Quality risks for medical procedures (4/7) –Financial risks (2/7) –Other risks (4/7) : –organisationnal (absenteism,…) –Patient rights –Social services –Human ressources
First results 3. Risks are used as an indicator: –Before selection of inspection locations (6/7) –After having gathered informations about hospital / institution (4/7) –In analyses of findings (5/7) 4. What type of data : –External source (7/7) –Internal source (5/7) –Public data (6/7) –Inspection data (5/7) –Hard data (e.g. financial figures) (4/7) –Quality figures (indicators) (6/7) –Soft data (interview, …) (2/7) –Feeling (3/7)
First results 5. methods : –Formal method (3/7) –Informal method (4/7) –Statistic (3/7) –Multicriterion analysis (2/7) –Other (1/7) 6. specific tools ? : –Yes (4/7) webbased survey, decision cloud, dashboard system, combination of information sources –No (3/7) 7.Implementation of method or tool aim at : - improve the capacity to detect risks (5/7) - improve the preparation inspection by focusing on risky areas (6/7) - just a supplementary tool (2/7)
Next steps 1.Refinement of the questionnaire –Addition of an item to inventory the key data 2.Survey among all the EPSO network Expecting results for Porto meeting in may Bibliography collection and analysis 4.Toward a common definition of risk 5.Analysis of tools and methods 6.Exchange mechanisms