Cognition on healthcare-associated infection management among 173 hospital directors in Shaanxi Province / 中国感染控制杂志

Objective To understand the cognition about healthcare-associated infection(HAI) management among directors in secondary and above hospitals in Shaanxi Province.Methods Questionnaire survey was adopted to investigate hospital directors who participated in The third session of Shaanxi Provincial HAI management training course for hospital directors.Results A total of 181 questionnaires were distributed, 173 (95.58％) were qualified.74.57％ of surveyed hospitals were secondary hospitals, 61.85％ were comprehensive hospitals, 67.05％ of respondents received HAI training in recent 3 years, 81.50％ and 55.49％ of hospital directors thought the main factors influencing the HAI management were health care workers'' awareness on HAI and leaders'' attention respectively.58.96％, 60.12％, and 46.82％ of hospital directors thought the director of HAI management department should have intermediate and above professional title, bachelor degree or above education, and preventive medicine professional requirements respectively.The awareness rate of HAI management-related knowledge was 86.71％, difference in awareness rate of HAI management-related knowledge among respondents of different job, gender, and HAI training in recent 3 years were all significantly different(all P<0.05).Conclusion Hospital directors'' cognition on HAI management affect the development of HAI work, strengthen the training on HAI knowledge among administrators can improve hospital administrators'' awareness on HAI prevention and control.

Ward-round by Hospital Director,an Important Measure to Control Nosocomial Infection / 中华医院感染学杂志

OBJECTIVE To explore the ward-round by hospital director to control nosocomial infection.METHODS To investigate prevalence rate of the nosocomial infection the day before the ward-round by hospital director.At the ward-round day to check the situation of disinfection,isolation,monitoring and control of the nosocomial infection,the hands-washing of the medical workers and the medical waste management.RESULTS To intensity the management of nosocomial infection of the clinical departments,to intensify the ideas of the prevention and control of the nosocomial infection among the medical workers,and to raise their compliance,in order to effectively control the nosocomial infection.CONCLUSIONS Strict and all-round management especially in participation of hospital director is the important measures to control the nosocomial infection.

Establishment of the system of standards for assessing the managing capacity of hospital directors / 中华医院管理杂志

We defined the prerequisite managing capacity of hospital directors through a comprehensive set of methods including literature review, interview of specialists and questionnaires. There were altogether 7 assessment items with 36 assessment indexes. The acquired assessment items and indexes were edited as Likert Scales and as signed to extprts concerned. The weight ofthe assessment indexes was obtained through a statistical analysis of the results. Hence the pre iluninary establishment of the system of standards for assessing the managing capacity of hospital directors.