E7: Tools to strengthen quality and patient safety

Wednesday 11 March 2026 | 13:00 - 14:00
Stream: Safety
Chair:
Ian Leistikow Dutch Health and Youth Care Inspectorate and Erasmus Schoolf of Health Policy and Management; Netherlands

Six dimensions of quality through hospital-internal and national clinical quality registers

Medical quality registries are important tools for assessing the quality of health care. In this session focus will be on different types of registries, their use and how they relate to assessing or improving quality according to the well-known six domains or aims for health care; safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable.

After this session, participants will be able to:

  • Know what medical quality registries are.
  • Understand the potentials and usefulness of medical quality registries.
  • Be able to use them as important tools for improving quality of health care.

Trond-Eirik Strand Oslo University Hospital; Norway