Enhancing Nighttime Surgical Instrument Cleaning Efficiency: An ECRS-Based Approach

24 July 2023: Clinical Research

Ting Hu ^12ABE , Liangying Yi ^12E* , Yuxin Tang ^3C , Yanhua Chen ^12E , Ruixue Hu ^12C

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.940346

Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e940346

Table 1 Quality defects in cleaning before and after implementation of Eliminate-Combine-Rearrange-Simplify (ECRS)-based optimization.

Groups	Number of surgical instruments being used and disposed of during nighttime hours	Number of surgical instruments with quality defects in cleaning	Defect rate%
Control group	27 308	578	2.11
Experimental group	28 471	75	0.26
χ=413.7;