Patient Safety Warnings: Insufficient Monitoring of Patients after Sedative Administration

Abstract

Empirical data for quantifying patient safety accidents are currently lacking in Korea, with information on patient safety accidents having only been collected through autonomous reporting since the implementation of the Patient Safety Act. The purpose of this study was to characterize the patient safety reporting learning system and to identify the applicable patient safety precautions to be taken in dental clinics. The Patient Safety Reporting Learning System portal site (https://www.kops.or.kr/) that was opened by the Agency for Evaluation and Certification on July 28, 2017 was searched to identify patient safety warnings applicable to the patient safety accident reporting procedure and dental clinics. The main warning applicable in dental care is “insufficient patient monitoring after sedatives administration”. The autonomy of the legislative reporter on laws and statutes is a clear obligation to prescribe regulations and have legal privileges, and mistakes are an obvious obligation to report serious side effects on regulations, so these aspects need to be reflected in future revisions.