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Table 3 Incremental activity volume of each activity item by hospital (Patient safety)

From: Measuring hospital-wide activity volume for patient safety and infection control: a multi-centre study in Japan

        

person-hour/(%)

Hospital Code

A

B

C

D

E

F

H

Model_1

Model_2

Number of bed

390

1100

690

510

300

880

520

100

-

Number of staff

900

2170

870

790

560

1690

1100

-

100

Meetings and conferences

2,102

5,044

2,078

2,247

712

2,238

9,919

591

307

 

(5.5)

(6.9)

(13.5)

(6.0)

(2.8)

(15.4)

(24.4)

(9.4)

(9.3)

Internal review and walk round

108

1,875

1,227

578

16,657

2,728

135

911

494

 

(0.3)

(2.6)

(8.0)

(1.6)

(66.1)

(18.7)

(0.3)

(14.6)

(15.0)

Internal education and training

2,375

4,354

1,239

5,326

819

4,090

1,636

469

260

 

(6.2)

(6.0)

(8.1)

(14.3)

(3.2)

(28.1)

(4.0)

(7.5)

(7.9)

External education and training

2,272

821

132

128

122

79

344

117

54

 

(5.9)

(1.1)

(0.9)

(0.3)

(0.5)

(0.5)

(0.8)

(1.9)

(1.6)

Standard manual development

81

267

558

1,017

1,257

359

100

115

67

 

(0.2)

(0.4)

(3.6)

(2.7)

(5.0)

(2.5)

(0.2)

(1.8)

(2.0)

Incident reporting

10,896

8,910

3,683

884

1,400

2,243

2,607

791

397

 

(28.5)

(12.2)

(24.0)

(2.4)

(5.6)

(15.4)

(6.4)

(12.6)

(12.0)

External audit

1,677

0

0

184

0

866

125

84

39

 

(4.4)

(0.0)

(0.0)

(0.5)

(0.0)

(5.9)

(0.3)

(1.3)

(1.2)

Maintenance of medical equipments

2,092

7,741

2,511

5,963

3,420

0

6,172

729

401

 

(5.5)

(10.6)

(16.3)

(16.0)

(13.6)

(0.0)

(15.2)

(11.6)

(12.1)

Management of medications

14,117

41,478

3,944

14,578

415

0

16,608

2,022

1,052

 

(37.0)

(56.8)

(25.7)

(39.1)

(1.6)

(0.0)

(40.9)

(32.3)

(31.8)

Other activities

2,481

2,505

0

6,355

386

1,955

3,001

434

236

 

(6.5)

(3.4)

(0.0)

(17.1)

(1.5)

(13.4)

(7.4)

(6.9)

(7.1)

Total

38,201

72,996

15,372

37,259

25,186

14,557

40,648

6,262

3,307

  1. The proportion of each activity item is shown in parentheses
  2. 'Model_1' shows the average of all the seven hospitals calculated after conversion of each hospital's value into that per 100 beds
  3. 'Model_2' shows the average of all the seven hospitals calculated after conversion of each hospital's value into that per 100 staff