PhD Scientific Days 2026

Health Sciences 3.

Innovation in Patient Safety: A New Process Model for Incorporating Health Literacy and Quality Improvement in Healthcare

Name of the presenter

Báthory, Szilvia

Institute/workplace of the presenter

Uzsoki Hospital Rehabilitation Department

Authors

Szilvia Báthory¹
1: Uzsoki Hospital Rehabilitation Department

Text of the abstract

One of the most common adverse events affecting patient safety in hospitals, is the fall, the consequences of which can impose additional burdens on both the institution and the patient. Our process model already used as a pilot project facilitate the development and implementation of further fall prevention interventions.
The aim was to find the best answers to the following two research questions:
a) What visionary approach, concepts, and methods can be used to develop, evaluate, and translate a hospital fall prevention intervention into clinical practice?
b) What factors can support both individual and institutional development?

Based on the findings of the literature review, health literacy was selected as the underlying concept and quality improvement as the methodological framework, which together determined both the structure of the process model and the characteristics of the developed intervention.
Accordingly, in 2024, we developed and implemented a health literacy-based, multicomponent hospital fall prevention intervention as part of the Project 1 at the Rehabilitation Department of Uzsoki Hospital in Budapest.
Subsequently, in 2026, based on the conclusions drawn from the results of Project 1 and following a revision of the intervention, the original fall prevention intervention was successfully adapted to the organizational and operational arrangements of a department in another hospital (Project 2).
Although this intervention is consistent with numerous Hungarian and international health policy objectives, a further study is needed to assess its impact effect (Project 3).

The main achievement of Projects 1 and 2 is that, by adopting a health literacy approach, placing quality improvement strategies in a new context, and leveraging mechanisms related to quality, innovation, productivity, and prevention, they succeeded in developing a process model:
• that supported the development and adaptation of a new fall prevention intervention
• which is sufficiently flexible to also support the planning of further quality improvement projects with different foci.

The Hungarian government’s health policy objectives provide an appropriate framework for creating, through the application of innovative approaches, an institutional environment in which a paradigm shift in healthcare and further development can be successfully achieved.

Projects were not funded.