Synopsis: Understand NABH (National Accreditation Board for healthcare) and its features
21 Oct 2019
What is NABH?
Like every other certification, we do in any profession we choose to upgrade ourselves for our better performance at work, we might observe that in company they have financial consultants to help understand they're financial structure and company performance at present and forecast to improvise certain detail to upgrade company’s performance. There are known quality checks are FSSAI for the food industry, ISI Mark for retail industry etc In a similar way therein healthcare industry they are accreditations that hospitals apply for which is called NABH i.e. National Accreditation Board for healthcare providers in the healthcare Industry. The NABH, an essential body of Quality Council of India (QCI), handling accreditation in Indian healthcare sector under the ministry of commerce and industry.
How NABH works?
NABH provides core indicators monitoring in hospital quality and patient safety so it focusses on proficiency of staff, collaterals, equipment, environment healthy atmosphere in the hospital and facilities etc.
NABH is a constituent board of Quality Council of India, it provides standard objective elements for hospital to achieve this accreditation /certification. The initial objective of this accreditation is to make sure that Hospital does evidence-practice along with importance to access, affordability, and competence, value, and efficacy to health care.
Only 173 hospitals in India have NABH accreditations.
Benefits of NABH Accreditation
Benefits for Patients
Patients are the biggest beneficiary among all the stakeholders. It results in excellent quality of care and patient safety.
Benefits for Hospitals
Accreditation to a hospital stimulates continuous improvement. It qualifies hospital in signifying guarantee to value care.
Benefits to paying and regulatory bodies
Finally, it provides an objective system of empanelment by insurance and other third parties
Technical committee designs NABH Standards for hospitals contains whole set of standards for assessment of hospitals for NABH grant. The standards provide outline for value of care for patients and quality improvement for hospitals. It assist to profile a quality culture at every level and across all the function of hospital.
How NABH thinks about patient safety standard, let’s consider criteria Patient Identification Tags
Throughout the health-care industry, the failure to correctly identify patients continues to result in medication errors, transfusion errors, testing errors, wrong person procedures, and the discharge of infants to the wrong families. The major areas where patient misidentification can occur include drug administration, phlebotomy, blood transfusions, and surgical interventions. The trend towards limiting working hours for clinical team members leads to an increased number of team members caring for each patient, thereby increasing the likelihood of hand-over and other communication problems because patient misidentification is identified as a root cause of many errors.
In some facility wristbands are traditionally used for identifying hospitalized patients, missing bands or incorrect information limit the efficacy of this system. Colour coding of wristbands facilitates rapid visual recognition of specific issues, but the lack of a standardized coding system has led to errors by staff who provide care at multiple facilities.
NABH, with its regulatory standers to design Patient Identification Band
1. Ensure that health-care organizations have systems in place that: Emphasize the primary responsibility of health-care workers to check the identity of patients and match the correct patients with the correct care before that care is administered.
2. Encourage the use of at least two identifiers (e.g. name and date of birth) to verify a patient’s identity upon admission or transfer to another hospital or other care setting.
3. Standardize the approaches to patient identification among different facilities within a health-care system. For example, use of white ID bands on which a standardized pattern or marker and specific information (e.g. name and date of birth) could be written, or implementation of biometric technologies.
Conclusion
Being NABH accredited hospital is always beneficial to Hospitals gives better patient outcomes and quality indicators ultimately reduce service and operational cost of providing service to the patient. Next question is in front of Hospitals how to maintain its standers when it comes to Identification Band. The answer is printing manufactures like Printina, Infiana who work for Hospital industry stationery across India more than 30+ years. They know nerve of it, not only that but they educate and support other vendors to follow NABH standards while completing jobs for NABH accredited hospitals.
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