Objectives: To evaluate the situation of applying PDCA cycle, quality models had been applied and staff working in quality field in 45 hospitals in the South of Vietnam in 2011. Subjects and method: Cross sectional survey, including quantitive and qualitative through interviewing by questionnaires among of 73 leadersand managers from 45 hospitals in the South of Vietnam in 2011. Results: Among of 38.2 percent hospital leaders and managers do not know about or know but do not apply PDCA cycle in real life. The areas have been applied commonly are safe medicine use: 37 (82.2 percent), infection control: 40 (88.9 percent), surgery safety: 36 (80.0 percent), patient satisfaction: 34 (75.6 percent), safe blood transfusion: 33 (73.3 percent), safe injections: 29 (64.4 percent). There are 19 hospitals (42.2 percent) had applied at least one of quality management models, 18 applying ISO 9001; 5 hospitals (11.1 percent) having ISO 14001 certification, 5 hospitals having ISO 15189 certification, 3 (6.6 percent) applying TQM, 4 hospitals (8.8 percent) had done accreditation. There are 17 hospitals (37.7 percent) having quality staff; 12 hospitals had established quality unit; but only 3 have full-time staff working in quality field. Conclusion: The rate of hospitals, who had known and PDCA cycle in quality improvement, is low. Most of them have not quality structure and fulltime staff working in quality management. The quality model have been concerned is ISO 9001. Some hospitals have started to study and apply foreign hospital quality standards in the way of accreditation and certification.
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