Practical Application of Root Cause Analysis in Clinical Safety Manage-ment in Internal Medicine and Assessment of Its Effectiveness
Objective To explore the practical application and effect evaluation of root cause analysis in clinical safety management of internal medicine.Methods From January 2022 to December 2023,40 medical staff in the De-partment of Internal Medicine of Zhaili Central Hospital in Laiwu District,Jinan City,Shandong Province were se-lected as the research objects.Traditional safety management was implemented from January to December 2022(tradi-tional group,and clinical safety management based on root cause analysis was implemented from January to Decem-ber 2023(inquiry group).The risk prevention and control capability,training effectiveness,and satisfaction with man-agement of the two groups were compared.Results The risk prevention and control ability and training effect of the in-quiry group were higher than those of the traditional group,and the differences were statistically significant(all P<0.05).The management satisfaction of the inquiry group was 95.00%(38/40),which was higher than 77.50%(31/40)of the traditional group,and the difference was statistically significant(χ2=4.114,P<0.05).Conclusion The practical application of root cause analysis in clinical safety management of internal medicine can improve the risk prevention and control ability of medical staff,enhance the training effect and improve the management satisfaction.
Root cause analysisInternal medicine clinicalSafety managementRisk prevention and controlTrain-ing effectManagement satisfaction