Patient Safety Principals and Quality Control Improvement Implementations in Private Sectors in Kuwait

Quality and safety in professional healthcare practice are essential aspects that ensure the well-being and satisfaction of patients (Hughes, 2008). The IOM has tried to define health care quality via standards. First, the IOM defined quality as "the extent to which medical care for individuals and populations raise the probability of desired medical results and complies with existing professional knowledge. Listed indicators of quality, which are standards, were used to define quality. Indicator possibilities and conceptual groupings are not always standardized. Instead of positive quality indicators, most cluster of quality indicators include the 5Ds—death, disease, disability, pain, and dissatisfaction. These include effective treatment, ethical behavior, and strict protocols to reduce errors and harm (Lohr, 1990).