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KMID : 0948820170230040067
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Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture Journal
2017 Volume.23 No. 4 p.67 ~ p.75
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A Study on the Facility Eligibility Inspection & Effect of Environment Improvement for National Inpatient Isolation Units
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Lee Du Ru Na
Kwon Soon-Jung
Sung Min-Ki
Yoon Hyung-Jin
Hong Jin-Kwan
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study is for the facility eligibility and improvement evaluation analysis for the patient care environment of 7 facilities which has national inpatient isolation units.
Methods: For the evaluation, first of all, the patient care environment of national inpatient isolation units are scrutinized by the checklist which is used on from 2014 with the 4 fields of criteria : architectural planning and layout, general requirement and condition for operating the negative pressured isolated patient room, HVAC system, and waste water discharging system. Finally, the evaluation results are compared with that of 2014.
Results: The result shows that the average value of facility eligibility is 89.3 percent and which is 8.9 percent higher than the value before the MERS occurred.
Implications: It is clear that facility remodeling of 7 institutions is being performed continuously, and the result of facility eligibility evaluation is reflected on design of a new 21 national inpatient isolation units those are going to be constructed from 2016. Therefore, it is expected that this study is used as a practical reference to establish the criteria of patient care environment management and safety management for both infectious disease outbreak and general service condition.
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KEYWORD
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Inspection, Facility eligibility, National inpatient isolation units, Criteria of safety-management, Environment Improvement.
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