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Objective To analyze the risk factors of the infusion pump to provide evidence-based basis for its safety management and monitoring.Methods Totally 1 000 pieces of questionnaires were issued for 100 infusion pumps from 9 grade-A tertiary hospitals in Beijing.The abnormalities and the correlation between the indexes were analyzed for the infusion pump,the indexes were compared on their effects on the abnormalities.Results Statistical analysis on data samples showed that the main factors included the manufacturer of infusion pump and pipeline,service time of infusion pump,compatibility between infusion pump and pipeline as well as the user department.Conclusion The management facility has to pose emphases on safety and utilization management as well as standardized application of the infusion pipeline so as to reduce adverse events efficiently.
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<p><b>BACKGROUND</b>Tertiary hospitals serve as the medical service center within the region and play an important role in the medical and health service system. They are also the key targets of public hospital reform in the new era in China. Through the reform of health system, the public hospital efficiency has changed remarkably. Therefore, this study aimed to provide some advice for efficiency assessment of public hospitals in China by comparing and analyzing the consistency of results obtained by three commonly used methods for examining hospital efficiency, that is, ratio analysis (RA), stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), and data envelopment analysis (DEA).</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The theoretical basis, operational processes, and the application status of RA, SFA, and DEA were learned through literature analysis. Then, the empirical analysis was conducted based on measured data from 51 tertiary public hospitals in Beijing from 2009 to 2011.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The average values of hospital efficiency calculated by SFA with index screening and principal component analysis (PCA) results and those calculated by DEA with index screening results were relatively stable. The efficiency of specialized hospitals was higher than that of general hospitals and that of traditional Chinese medicine hospitals. The results obtained by SFA with index screening results and the results obtained by SFA with PCA results showed a relatively high correlation (r-value in 2009, 2010, and 2011 were 0.869, 0.753, and 0.842, respectively, P < 0.01). The correlation between results obtained by DEA with index screening results and PCA results and results obtained by other methods showed statistical significance, but the correlation between results obtained by DEA with index screening results and PCA results was lower than that between results obtained by SFA with index screening results and PCA results.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>RA is not suitable for multi-index evaluation of hospital efficiency. In the given conditions, SFA is a stable efficiency analysis method. In the evaluation of hospital efficiency, DEA combined with PCA should be adopted with caution due to its poor stability.</p>