Improvement of surgery department performance after implementing hospital quality standards’ policies: two decades experience
Ayyat, A., Sayed, H., Helmy, A., Esmat, M. (2018). Improvement of surgery department performance after implementing hospital quality standards’ policies: two decades experience. EKB Journal Management System, 37(3), -. doi: 10.4103/ejs.ejs_59_18
Afaf El Ayyat; Hanan Ali Sayed; Ahmed Hazem Helmy; Mohamed Emad Esmat. "Improvement of surgery department performance after implementing hospital quality standards’ policies: two decades experience". EKB Journal Management System, 37, 3, 2018, -. doi: 10.4103/ejs.ejs_59_18
Ayyat, A., Sayed, H., Helmy, A., Esmat, M. (2018). 'Improvement of surgery department performance after implementing hospital quality standards’ policies: two decades experience', EKB Journal Management System, 37(3), pp. -. doi: 10.4103/ejs.ejs_59_18
Ayyat, A., Sayed, H., Helmy, A., Esmat, M. Improvement of surgery department performance after implementing hospital quality standards’ policies: two decades experience. EKB Journal Management System, 2018; 37(3): -. doi: 10.4103/ejs.ejs_59_18

Improvement of surgery department performance after implementing hospital quality standards’ policies: two decades experience

The Egyptian Journal of Surgery
Volume 37, Issue 3, July 2018  XML PDF (514.55 K)
DOI: 10.4103/ejs.ejs_59_18
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Authors
Afaf El Ayyat; Hanan Ali Sayed; Ahmed Hazem Helmyorcid ; Mohamed Emad Esmat
Abstract
Background
Theodor Bilharz Research Institute (TBRI) Hospital comprises clinical departments, research laboratories, and different supporting services. General Surgery Department (GSD) in TBRI hospital has over 30 years of cumulative surgical and research experience. New managerial policy and quality procedures were developed and implemented from 2007 onwards in GSD.
Methods
This was a retrospective observational study. Electronic data were collected from the medical record unit and annual reports of TBRI hospital from the year 2001 to the year 2016. Hospital utilization indices, admission, surgical operations performed, bed utilization indices, average length of stay (ALOS), bed occupancy rate (BOR), bed turnover rate (BTR), and mortality rate (MR) were calculated before and after implementing the new policies and procedures from the year 2007 onwards.
Results
The shift to more skilled and major surgical operations was doubled, and the increase of elective surgeries increased to more than three-folds of emergency operations. There was marked increase of outpatient flow to more than three-folds, and decreased MR. The indicators used to show increase of performance in GSD were as follows: improvement in hospital bed indices decreased ALOS, increased BOR, and increased BTR. The year 2016 showed the optimization of all hospital indices: ALOS 5.5, BOR 74.2, BTR 48.9, and MR 0.1.
Conclusion
Quality improvement may not appear in the initial years of a program. It is recommended to keep up the implemented hospital quality policies and procedures to continue future improvement for better quality of patient care in GSD at TBRI hospital.
Keywords
Elective surgery; hospital bed indices; mortality rate; out-patient attendance; performance quality improvement
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