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Quality and Patient Safety

Providing good and safe patient care is our most important task. The hospital's systematic work on quality and patient safety shall contribute to ensuring good and safe healthcare services in Agder. Departments shall have access to the necessary expertise and infrastructure to continuously improve the services offered to patients.

 

Health Atlas compares the population's use of healthcare services through interactive maps, reports, and fact sheets. An overarching goal is that healthcare services in Norway should be equitable regardless of where you live.

Health Atlas

Healthcare workers face ethical choices in patient treatment every day, whether it concerns diagnostics, treatment, or allocation of shared resources. The Clinical Ethics Committee shall contribute to quality assurance in ethical matters and to enhance our ability to identify, analyze, and, if possible, resolve ethical issues related to patient treatment.
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CEC

Overview of quality indicators.

Quality and Quality Indicators - Norwegian Directorate of Health

Medical quality registers contain information about treatment quality that can contribute to improving healthcare services. See relevant results from national medical quality registers here.

Quality Registers

Here you will find information about areas where care pathways have been established, including care pathways for cancer, care pathways for substance abuse and psychiatry, and care pathways for stroke.

Care Pathways

The systematic work on quality and patient safety at Sørlandet Hospital shall contribute to the following:

  • Reduce patient harm
  • Build lasting structures for patient safety
  • Improve the patient safety culture in healthcare

The work is anchored in:

Sub-plan for quality and patient safety

National action plan for quality and patient safety 2019-2023
Regional sub-strategy for quality and patient safety (Health South-East)
Strategy plan for SSHF 2021-2024, chapter 1 on quality in the patient pathway

We have a statutory duty to report serious incidents. This applies to incidents that have resulted in death or significant harm to patients. These reports are called 3-3A reports according to § 3-3 which describes the reporting obligation in the Act on Specialist Healthcare Services.

Adverse Events

On helsenorge.no you will find expected waiting times within physical health, mental health, substance abuse, and addiction.

helsenorge.no
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Last updated 03.01.2025