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Biomedical waste segregation compliance scoring system: to analyze, strengthen, monitor, and step up waste management in healthcare facilities

INTRODUCTION: segregation of biomedical waste (BMW) is the foremost and prime step for effective BMW management. This study was taken up to assess the BMW segregation compliance in patient care areas using a checklist-based scoring system to analyze the segregation compliance and establish feedback-...

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Autores principales: Pindi, Girisha, Suravaram, Swathi, Kandluri, Siva, Donavalli, Komali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10611912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37900208
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2023.45.163.35754
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author Pindi, Girisha
Suravaram, Swathi
Kandluri, Siva
Donavalli, Komali
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Kandluri, Siva
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description INTRODUCTION: segregation of biomedical waste (BMW) is the foremost and prime step for effective BMW management. This study was taken up to assess the BMW segregation compliance in patient care areas using a checklist-based scoring system to analyze the segregation compliance and establish feedback-based training programs. METHODS: this study was conducted between January 2020 to December 2021 at a government tertiary care hospital in Hyderabad. The compliance was calculated by giving a score of one for each day, such that if there was no noncompliance (NC) the score was 100% for a given location at the end of the month. A score of minus one was given for each day a noncompliance was noted and transfigured into percentages. A score of 100% was considered good, and below 95% was considered an action point necessitating root cause analysis and training. RESULTS: the BMW segregation compliance scores of the hospital for the year 2020 (96.5%) were compared with 2021 scores (97.5%). The outpatient department (OPD) and ICU had the poorest compliance rate of 93.7% and 93.6% respectively, compared to wards (96.2%). The most common factors influencing NC in BMW segregation were the joining of new staff, relocation, or new establishment of wards. The most common segregation error was found in the yellow disposal bags pertaining to the disposal of personal protective equipment. CONCLUSION: this easy and simple scoring system was established to improve the segregation compliance of BMW. End of each month an area wise compliance is easily made such that areas with low scores could be trained.
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spelling pubmed-106119122023-10-29 Biomedical waste segregation compliance scoring system: to analyze, strengthen, monitor, and step up waste management in healthcare facilities Pindi, Girisha Suravaram, Swathi Kandluri, Siva Donavalli, Komali Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: segregation of biomedical waste (BMW) is the foremost and prime step for effective BMW management. This study was taken up to assess the BMW segregation compliance in patient care areas using a checklist-based scoring system to analyze the segregation compliance and establish feedback-based training programs. METHODS: this study was conducted between January 2020 to December 2021 at a government tertiary care hospital in Hyderabad. The compliance was calculated by giving a score of one for each day, such that if there was no noncompliance (NC) the score was 100% for a given location at the end of the month. A score of minus one was given for each day a noncompliance was noted and transfigured into percentages. A score of 100% was considered good, and below 95% was considered an action point necessitating root cause analysis and training. RESULTS: the BMW segregation compliance scores of the hospital for the year 2020 (96.5%) were compared with 2021 scores (97.5%). The outpatient department (OPD) and ICU had the poorest compliance rate of 93.7% and 93.6% respectively, compared to wards (96.2%). The most common factors influencing NC in BMW segregation were the joining of new staff, relocation, or new establishment of wards. The most common segregation error was found in the yellow disposal bags pertaining to the disposal of personal protective equipment. CONCLUSION: this easy and simple scoring system was established to improve the segregation compliance of BMW. End of each month an area wise compliance is easily made such that areas with low scores could be trained. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2023-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10611912/ /pubmed/37900208 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2023.45.163.35754 Text en Copyright: Girisha Pindi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Biomedical waste segregation compliance scoring system: to analyze, strengthen, monitor, and step up waste management in healthcare facilities
title_fullStr Biomedical waste segregation compliance scoring system: to analyze, strengthen, monitor, and step up waste management in healthcare facilities
title_full_unstemmed Biomedical waste segregation compliance scoring system: to analyze, strengthen, monitor, and step up waste management in healthcare facilities
title_short Biomedical waste segregation compliance scoring system: to analyze, strengthen, monitor, and step up waste management in healthcare facilities
title_sort biomedical waste segregation compliance scoring system: to analyze, strengthen, monitor, and step up waste management in healthcare facilities
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10611912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37900208
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2023.45.163.35754
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