Purchase data: a proxy for safety status.

Autor: Wong A; Emergency Department, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia., Nguyen H; StaffandPatientSafety.org, Brisbane, QLD, Australia., Eley R; Emergency Department, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia. Electronic address: r.eley@uq.edu.au., Sinnott M; StaffandPatientSafety.org, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of hospital infection [J Hosp Infect] 2020 Aug; Vol. 105 (4), pp. 657-658. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 May 07.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.05.004
Abstrakt: This study demonstrated the use of purchase data to determine the incidence of sharps injuries in a major tertiary referral hospital in Australia. The incidence rates of injuries per 100,000 items purchased were 2.65 and 12.60 for syringe needles and scalpel blades, respectively. These figures were lower than those reported previously using this method. The incidence rate for injuries with suture needles, which had not been reported previously, was 31.89/100,000 items purchased. Incidence data calculated in this manner may be used in conjunction with purchase cost estimates to inform policy and practices on institutional staff safety measures.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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