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H-K Selbmann

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PubMed2004

[Assessment and certification of hospital care in Germany].

The increasing call for evaluating and certifying the quality of hospital care is to be seen in connection with the need for more transparency in the German health care system. Hospitals can have themselves evaluated or compared on four levels of quality: the level of medical, nursing, and organizational core services, the level of the quality system of the hospital, the level of the internal quality management, and the level of business excellence. The external comparisons of hospitals legally established in Germany deal with the evaluation of core services of hospitals. All the other levels are covered by holistic evaluation and certification procedures following the models of the EFQM and the ISO, the genuine medical certification systems (KTQ and JCI), or peer reviewing. Each of them has different objectives and all are applied in German acute care hospitals. However, their methods are not yet fully developed and certainly will have to be further optimized in view of the forthcoming changes in the German health care system.

Certification↗
PubMed2002

[HYGEA (Hygiene in gastroenterology--endoscope reprocessing): Study on quality of reprocessing flexible endoscopes in hospitals and in the practice setting].

The quality of reprocessing gastroscopes, colonoscopes and duodenoscopes in daily routine of 25 endoscopy departments in hospitals and 30 doctors with their own practices was evaluated by microbiological testing in the HYGEA interventional study. In 2 test periods, endoscopes ready for use in patients were found contaminated at high rates (period 1: 49 % of 152 endoscopes; period 2: 39 % of 154 endoscopes). Culture of bacterial fecal flora (E. coli, coliform enterobacteriaceae, enterococci) was interpreted indicating failure of cleaning procedure and disinfection of endoscopes. Detection of Pseudomonas spp. (especially P. aeruginosa) and other non-fermenting rods - indicating microbially insufficient final rinsing and incomplete drying of the endoscope or a contaminated flushing equipment for the air/water-channel - pointed out endoscope recontamination during reprocessing or afterwards. Cause for complaint was found in more than 50 % of endoscopy facilities tested (period 2: 5 in hospitals, 25 practices). Reprocessing endoscopes in fully automatic chemo-thermally decontaminating washer-disinfectors with disinfection of final rinsing water led to much better results than manual or semi-automatic procedures (failure rate of endoscopy facilities in period 2 : 3 of 28 with fully automatic, 8 of 12 with manual, 9 of 15 with semi-automatic reprocessing). The study results give evidence for the following recommendations: 1. Manual brushing of all accessible endoscope channels has to be performed even before further automatic reprocessing; 2. For final endoscope rinsing, water or aqua dest. should only be used disinfected or sterile-filtered; 3. Endoscopes have to be dried thoroughly using compressed air prior to storage; 4. Bottle and tube for air/water-channel flushing have to be reprocessed daily by disinfection or sterilization, and in use, the bottle have to be filled exclusively with sterile water. The HYGEA study shows that microbiological testing of endoscopes is useful for detection of insufficient reprocessing and should be performed for quality assurance in doctors' practices, too. The study put recommendations for reprocessing procedures in more concrete terms.

Colony Count, Microbial↗