Exploring the safety and quality of mobile X-ray imaging in a new infectious disease biocontainment unit: an in situ simulation and video-reflexive study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

During a precommissioning inspection of a new biocontainment centre, radiographers noted structural features of quarantine rooms that could compromise staff and patient safety and the X-ray image quality, even after significant modifications had been made to an earlier radiography protocol. The aim of this study was to explore the safety and effectiveness of the modified protocol, in the new space, and identify improvements, if required.

Design

A qualitative study using in situ simulation and video-reflexive methods.

Setting

A newly built biocontainment centre, prior to its commissioning in 2021, in a large, tertiary hospital in Sydney, Australia.

Participants

Five radiographers, and a nurse and a physician from the biocontainment centre, consented t

SUBMITTER: Wyer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10882301 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature