Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of self-developed embedded computer-based comprehensive intervention program on the sampling of clinical microbial specimen in a three-A comprehensive hospital, and to provide references for improving the sampling of microbial specimens.
METHODS Based on training, monitoring, feedback and microbiological laboratory renovation, the embedded program was developed for intervening the sampling of clinical microbial specimens. The basic information of patients from the hospital information system and doctor orders sampling and specimen results achieved from the laboratory inspection system from Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2022 were collected. The embedded intervention program provided the antimicrobial orders and related purposes and execution time, and surgical information and status of all patients from 2015 to 2022. The data analysis was conducted by SPSS 24.0.
RESULTS The sampling rates before antibiotic therapy in Jun. 2013 and Jun. 2014 were just 36.50% and 41.67%, respectively. After the information-based comprehensive intervention, the average sampling rate before antibiotic therapy from 2015 to 2022 was 78.33%, with an improvement of 98.89% when compared with 39.39% from 2013 to 2014 (P < 0.001). Furthermore, there was a downward trend in the proportion of sputum specimens and an upward trend in blood specimens (χ2 test, P < 0.001). In 8 years, the proportion of sputum specimens decreased by 26.49%, and the proportion of blood specimens increased by 7.30% (P < 0.001).
CONCLUSION Information-based comprehensive intervention can not only improve the sampling rates of microbiological specimens before antibiotic therapy, but also optimize the structure of microbiological specimen types, which provide reliable evidence for the etiological diagnosis and references for improving microbial specimens sampling.