Enhancement of the compliance to the updated Egyptian mental health law, a six sigma breakthrough project

Definitions I. The term competence to consent refers to an individual’s legal capacity to accept a proposed treatment, to refuse treatment, or to select among treatment options. II. Voluntary admission: should base on patient’s competence and free Volition to give informed written consent. The patient has the right to ask for being discharged. III. Involuntary admission: conditioned with Presence of apparent signs and symptoms of severe mental illness, serious risky symptoms impacting the safety, health or life of the patient or the others or possibility of impending sever deterioration of the mental status.2 IV. Medical Abbreviations: a) BPRS: brief psychiatric rating scale measurement tool b) GAF: global functioning assessment tool c) HCR-20: history, clinical picture, risk management assessment scale Hard benefits I. Compliance to the law prevents legal consequences. II. Decrease patient complaints Increasing the effective utilization of time by decreasing chances of re-do. III. Increasing the total hospital’s revenue IV. Save money payed in court sue and malpractice claims. V. Minimizing ineffective services. VI. +Minimizing defective services. Soft benefits i. Improve professional image within the Regional/National Counsel. ii. Increase the public image of the hospital in the community. iii. Increase confidence of the customers, internal and external. iv. Increase the awareness of the employees v. Facilitate quest for accreditation. Situational analysis Compliance to the mental health law project has been selected by Quality Council after identification of the internal process defects through the auditing reports by the National/regional Counsel of Mental Health Table 1.3