某加護中心改善感染性廢棄物分類成效專案

The Effect of a Project for Improvement of Infectious Waste Classification in an Intensive Care Unit

白玉珠(Yu-Chu Pai) ； 林淑惠(Shu-Hui Lin) ； 林靜薇(Ching-Wei Lin)

《醫務管理期刊》 3卷4期 (2002/12) Pp. 70-84

https://doi.org/10.6174/JHM2002.3(4).70

摘要

This project was motivated by the fact that the overproduction of infectious waste in an intensive care unit resulted from incomplete classification of waste, which in turn increased hospital budget and caused environmental contamination. By examining the waste and querying related personnel, we found that medical staff and patient's families had no enough knowledge to understand that practicing waste classification was important. To reduce the infectious waste, this project was conducted by adopting the system theory and closely monitored. The results were as follows: (1) the recognition of infectious waste classification in medical staff and patient's families was significantly improved (t=-22.48, p＜0.001); (2) both medical staff and patients families could carry out the infectious waste classification; (3) the amount of infectious waste was significantly induced by 59% per month and saved more than NT$30,000 monthly (t=19.9, p＜0.001). However, non-infectious waste was dramatically increased, which might be minimized by an effective recycling program.

關鍵字

感染性 ； 廢棄物

並列摘要

This project was motivated by the fact that the overproduction of infectious waste in an intensive care unit resulted from incomplete classification of waste, which in turn increased hospital budget and caused environmental contamination. By examining the waste and querying related personnel, we found that medical staff and patient's families had no enough knowledge to understand that practicing waste classification was important. To reduce the infectious waste, this project was conducted by adopting the system theory and closely monitored. The results were as follows: (1) the recognition of infectious waste classification in medical staff and patient's families was significantly improved (t=-22.48, p＜0.001); (2) both medical staff and patients families could carry out the infectious waste classification; (3) the amount of infectious waste was significantly induced by 59% per month and saved more than NT$30,000 monthly (t=19.9, p＜0.001). However, non-infectious waste was dramatically increased, which might be minimized by an effective recycling program.

並列關鍵字

Infectious ； Waste

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