The Prevention of the Root Accident in the Department of Radiological Examination Room ―Analysis of the Results of Questionnaire Survey about Medical Accident to Many Hospital

• Published in: Japanese Journal of Radiological Technology Vol. 75; no. 11; pp. 1355 - 1361
• Main Authors: Matsuura, Yoshihiro, Doi, Tsukasa, Nagayoshi, Makoto, Yamatani, Yuya, Yamada, Eiji, Miyanishi, Tadashi, Hashida, Masahiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: Japan Japanese Society of Radiological Technology 2019; Japan Science and Technology Agency
• Subjects: Accidents; Drains; Human factors; Humans; incident report analysis; medical safety; Patients; Physical factors; Polls & surveys; Prevention; Questionnaires; Questions; Radiography; Radiology; Risk Management; Surveys and Questionnaires; Technologists; medical safety; risk management; incident report analysis
• ISSN: 0369-4305; 1881-4883
• DOI: 10.6009/jjrt.2019_JSRT_75.11.1355

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of incidents related to routes and drains that occur in the radiological examination room for the prevention of these incidents. Methods: We conducted a questionnaire survey on incident cases that occurred in the radiological examination room. There were 373 responses, of which 76 responses were related to routes and drains. The question contents were the number of hospital beds, radiology department of occurrence, time of occurrence, patient’s situation, method of visiting, years of experience of the radiological technologists, and countermeasures, and so on. Based on these answers to these questions, we analyzed which factors were involved in the occurrence of the incidents. Results: Incidents related to routes and drains often occur when moving examination table or transferring the patients to the examination table using the slider. On the other hand, the years of experience of the radiological technologists hardly participated in the factor of these incidents. From these answers to questions, 75% of incidents might predictable, and these incidents could be prevented by improvement of human factors accounted for the majority rather than that of physical factors. Conclusion: The number of incidents related to routes and drains may reduce by that all staff involved in the radiological examination recognizing the characteristic of these incidents.