Table 3.
Sub-process Work System Barriers and Facilitators by Focus Group
| Sub-process | Barriers | Facilitators | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | T | T/T | Orgn | PE | P | T | T/T | Orgn | PE | Total B/F^ | |
| Diagnostic testing | |||||||||||
| EVS* | |||||||||||
| MD* | 9 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | ||||||
| Nursing | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Total | 12 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 38 | ||||
| Empiric isolation | |||||||||||
| EVS | |||||||||||
| MD | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Nursing | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 16 | ||
| Contact isolation | |||||||||||
| EVS | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| MD | 4 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Nursing | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 8 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 56 | ||
| Hand hygiene | |||||||||||
| EVS | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| MD | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Nursing | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 6 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 50 | ||
| Disinfection | |||||||||||
| EVS | 6 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| MD | 8 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Nursing | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 1 | 6 | 12 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 46 | ||
Note. EVS, environmental services; MD, physicians; B = barrier; F, facilitator; P, person; T = task; T/T, tool/technology; Orgn, organization; PE, physical environment. Blank space means 0.