Effect of a "feedback prompt" from a disinfection tracking system on portable medical equipment disinfection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Portable medical equipment (PME) may contribute to transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms without proper disinfection. We studied whether a Disinfection Tracking System (DTS) with feedback prompt, attached to PME, can increase the frequency of PME disinfection.

Methods

DTS devices were placed on 10 workstations-on-wheels (WOWs) and 5 vitals machine (VM). After a 25 day "screen-off" period, the DTS device screens were turned on to display the number of hours since the last recorded disinfection event for a 42 day period. We used a Bayesian multilevel zero-inflated negative binomial model to compare the number of events in the display "screen-off" to the "screen-on" period.

Results

During the "screen-off" period, there were 1.26 and 0.49 mean disinfect

SUBMITTER: Crowley P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9307688 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature