Hospital Environmental Sanitation Monitoring:Analysis of Cost-benefit Effect
- VernacularTitle:医院环境卫生监测成本效益分析
- Author:
Yinghong WU
;
Shoujun WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Environmental sanitation monitoring;
Cost accounting;
Nosocomial infection;
Outbreak
- From:
Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology
2006;0(08):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To investigate the hospitals containing above 500 sickbeds in the Beijing area,in order to find out the relationship between the environmental sanitation monitoring(including air,object surface,medical personnel hand,using desinfectant compound,and ultraviolet lamps) and the hospital infection control.METHODS Choosing hospitals with above 500 sickbeds in Beijing,through a written survey and questionnaire covering the actual environmental sanitation monitoring quantity,the positive rate and the situations of hospital infections outbreak in 2005,then calculate the statistical analysis.RESULTS After calculating the environmental sanitation monitoring cost for the hospitals with above 500 sickbeds,it could conclude the monitoring expense for 1000 sickbeds hospital per year for each bed was 192.10 RMB;the monitoring expense for 500 sickbeds hospital per year for each bed was 145.60 RMB.It could also conclude the positive rate of object surface and the hands of medical personnel was higher.CONCLUSIONS Through the analysis,each hospital carries out the monitor according to the requirement of the "Standards",the monitoring expense for hospitals with 1000 sickbeds is higher that of hospitals with 500 sickbeds.It is no correlation between the hospital monitoring positive rate and the hospital infection outbreak.The medical personnel′s knowledge of hospital infection control and hand hygiene training must be strengthened.
