Effective risk management is central to patient safety, regulatory compliance, and organizational sustainability in healthcare. In South Africa, audiology and speech therapy practitioners operate within a system characterized by resource constraints, regulatory complexity, and socio-economic inequality, resulting in differentiated risk exposure across practice settings....
Clinics operating in resource-constrained settings should review their risk management frameworks; the strategies outlined may be directly applicable to practice governance, though the evidence base is likely expert-opinion level.
Formalising risk management in under-resourced audiology and speech therapy practices can reduce patient harm and improve sustainability in health systems where safety nets are thin.
- 01Article addresses risk management for audiology and speech therapy in resource-limited health systems.
- 02Focus is on South Africa as a case context, with relevance to similar low-resource settings globally.
- 03Covers both private and public practice environments.
- 04Published in Journal of Healthcare Risk Management (J Healthc Risk Manag).
- 05No sample size or empirical data reported; likely expert guidance or review.
Essential risk management and control strategies exist that can mitigate risk in audiology and speech therapy private and public practices in resource-constrained health systems.
opinionunclear- PMID
- 42316475
- DOI
- 10.1002/jhrm.70030.
- Journal
- Journal of Healthcare Risk Management
- Publication type
- review
- Evidence level
- 5
- Population
- Audiology and speech therapy practices in resource-constrained health systems, with focus on South Africa
- Intervention
- Risk management and control strategies for audiology and speech therapy practices
Primary outcomes
Identification of key risk management strategies for resource-constrained audiology/speech therapy settings
