The contribution of hospital hygiene to patient safety is made up of 3 pillars: Detection, prevention and control of hospital-acquired infections, known as nosocomial infections.

The clinic’s long-established hygiene management system ensures that hygiene standards reflect the latest scientific knowledge and are implemented consistently. This includes, among other things:

• Screening for multi-resistant pathogens (MRE screening)
• Recording and evaluation of postoperative wound infections in selected indicator operations
• Application of standard hygiene and hygiene measures that go beyond standard hygiene
• Validated procedure for reprocessing the medical devices used
• Antibiotics management in practice

In hospital, patients find themselves in an unfamiliar environment; their mobility is restricted and weakened by illness or surgery. Taking medication can lead to dizziness or impaired perception.

In rare cases, a fall and its consequences can have serious consequences. For this reason, assessing the risk of falling and targeted prevention of falls are standard practice for every patient at our facility.

Patient information on the prevention of falls

ISAR Klinikum has been using standardized surgical checklists for a long time, in accordance with a recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO). Before every operation, the risk of patient, procedure or side mix-ups is combated in patient admission, the surgical admission ward and in the operating room.

For this purpose, the following points, among others, are checked with mutual confirmation of the information:

• Identity of the patient
• Type of intervention
• Location and side of the intervention (marking)

Here you will find the checklist as a PDF download.

The checklist is regularly reviewed by Clinical Quality and Risk Management and adapted accordingly.

Morbidity and mortality conferences are used to systematically analyze and discuss the course of serious illnesses across departments.

The aim is to identify possible causes of adverse events and determine appropriate changes in the process to improve the quality of treatment.

CIRS is a voluntary and anonymous reporting system for risks that jeopardize patient safety in everyday clinical practice. CIRS creates knowledge about risks that other systems (damage reporting systems, patient complaint systems, treatment error registers) cannot provide and leads to measures to improve patient safety as part of risk management.