Barriers to infection control due to hospital patient room factors: a secondary analysis of focus group and interview transcripts

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• Personal Author:
  Evans KD ; Lavender SA ; Li J ; Murray J ; Park S ; Patterson ES ; Sanders EB-N ; Sommerich CM ; Umar R
• Description:
  Infection control is of central importance when designing hospital rooms, particularly to reduce hospital-acquired infections. Existing room design standards include private rooms, toilets, and showers, ample space between a patient's bed and a family member's bed, and separate spaces for clean and dirty nursing activities. We investigated various hospital room factors that make it challenging for staff to reduce hospital-acquired infections. Focus groups and interviews were conducted with multiple stakeholder groups as part of a larger research effort to generate guidelines for hospital room design. Transcripts were generated for eight of these stakeholder groups, including housekeeping staff, and qualitatively analyzed for emerging themes. The insights suggest additional areas for consideration during the design of hospital rooms, in particular the need for standardized, dedicated locations for supplies brought into the patient room and inclusion of the perspective of housekeeping staff in the design process. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Engineering Ergonomics Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Engineering-controls Health-care-facilities Hospital-acquired-infections Housekeeping-personnel Infection-control Infectious-diseases Nosocomial-infections
• ISSN:
  1071-1813
• Publisher:
  Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  58
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045617
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 58th Annual Meeting, October 27-31, 2014, Chicago, Illinois. Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2014 Sep; 58:1266-1270
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20120701
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 58th Annual Meeting, October 27-31, 2014, Chicago, Illinois
• End Date:
  20170630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/200970/cdc_200970_DS1.pdf
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