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Table 4 Incremental activity volume of each activity item by hospital (Infection control)

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

1,848

1,085

723

1,518

543

476

2,145

232

122

 

(29.5)

(19.6)

(17.9)

(23.6)

(18.0)

(3.9)

(24.9)

(20.3)

(19.9)

Internal review and walk round

252

1,817

1,638

424

274

497

576

116

69

 

(4.0)

(32.8)

(40.5)

(6.6)

(9.1)

(4.1)

(6.7)

(10.1)

(11.3)

Internal education and training

1,973

1,819

322

998

351

3,494

1,150

235

120

 

(31.5)

(32.8)

(8.0)

(15.5)

(11.6)

(28.6)

(13.4)

(20.6)

(19.7)

External education and training

1,101

64

712

284

80

1,697

1,099

125

65

 

(17.6)

(1.2)

(17.6)

(4.4)

(2.7)

(13.9)

(12.8)

(11.0)

(10.7)

Standard manual development

440

73

144

255

68

167

200

39

20

 

(7.0)

(1.3)

(3.6)

(4.0)

(2.3)

(1.4)

(2.3)

(3.4)

(3.3)

Infection surveillance

203

678

312

772

742

2,271

2,370

182

96

 

(3.2)

(12.2)

(7.7)

(12.0)

(24.6)

(18.6)

(27.6)

(15.9)

(15.7)

Other activities

454

8

191

2,175

958

3,594

1,060

215

118

 

(7.2)

(0.1)

(4.7)

(33.8)

(31.8)

(29.5)

(12.3)

(18.8)

(19.4)

Total

6,271

5,544

4,042

6,426

3,015

12,196

8,599

1,143

610

  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