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Table 1 The supervision indicators of hospital for inspection examination

From: The pre-analytical process management status and influencing factors of laboratory test before prescribing antimicrobial in developing country

Index

Definition

Calculation formula

Request rate of non restricted antimicrobial (NR)

The proportion of clinicians requesting microbiological laboratory diagnostic tests before prescribing non restricted antimicrobial

The number of clinicians requesting microbiological laboratory diagnostic tests before prescribing non restricted antimicrobial / total number of clinicians

Request rate of restricted antimicrobial (RR)

The proportion of clinicians requesting microbiological laboratory diagnostic tests before prescribing restricted antimicrobial

The number of clinicians requesting microbiological laboratory diagnostic test before prescribing restricted antimicrobial / total number of clinicians

Request rate of special-use antimicrobial (SR)

The proportion of clinicians requesting microbiological laboratory diagnostic tests before prescribing special-use antimicrobial

The number of doctors requesting microbiological laboratory diagnostic test before prescribing special-use antimicrobial / total number of clinicians

Zero obstacle rate of specimen collection (ZR)

The proportion of nurses who did not encounter obstacles mentioned in the questionnaire during sample collection

The number of nurses / total number of nurses who did not encounter the collection obstacles mentioned in the questionnaire

Zero obstacle rate of specimen transportation (TR)

The proportion of persons who did not encounter obstacles mentioned in the questionnaire during sample delivery

The number of transporters who did not encounter the transportation obstacles mentioned in the questionnaire/total number of transporters

Zero obstacle rate of specimen inspection feedback (FR)

The proportion of clinical laboratory staff who feed back unqualified samples to clinicians/ nurses.

The number of clinical laboratory staff giving feedback / total number of clinical laboratory inspectors