Measuring quality indicators in the operating room: cleaning and turnover time.
This exploratory-descriptive study was carried out in the Surgical Center Unit of a university hospital aiming to measure time spent with concurrent cleaning performed by the cleaning service and turnover time and also investigated potential associations between cleaning time and the surgery's magnitude and specialty, period of the day and the room's size. The sample consisted of 101 surgeries, computing cleaning time and 60 surgeries, computing turnover time. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to analyze time and Pearson's correlation to study potential correlations. The time spent in concurrent cleaning was 7.1 minutes and turnover time was 35.6 minutes. No association between cleaning time and the other variables was found. These findings can support nurses in the efficient use of resources thereby speeding up the work process in the operating room.
Departamento de Enfermagem Especializada, Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil. marli@famerp.br
Marli de Carvalho
Mde C
Jericó
Márcia Galan
MG
Perroca
Vivian Colombo
VC
da Penha
D006797:Housekeeping, Hospital / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011786:Quality Control; D013997:Time Factors