Year 2011 / Volume 103 / Number 2
Puntos De Vista
Occupational risk prevention in endoscopy units: a pending issue

pp. 83-88

J. S. Baudet, J. M. Martín, A. Sánchez del Río y A. Aguirre-Jaime

Abstract
The degree of Knower and compliance with occupational risk prevention measures in the Spanish gastrointestinal endoscopy units is unknown.
Aim: 1. To assess compliance with occupational risk prevention measures in GIE units. 2. To determine which factors influence the fulfillment of occupational risk prevention measures.

Methods: a validated survey was supplied to 300 GIE units, including questions on: 1. General occupational risk prevention measures; 2. occupational risk prevention measures during disinfection; 3. occupational risk prevention measures during examination.
The following Hospital or GIE Unit characteristics were evaluated: Type of hospital according to the Spanish National Health Service; Number of hospital beds; Advanced diagnostic and therapeutic
procedures performed and; Centers providing training in the field of endoscopy.

Results: response: 196 GIE units (65%). 104 GIE units (53% CI95%: 46-60) fulfill less than 50% of the occupational risk prevention measures studied.
The RR of less than 50% of the ORP measures being fulfilled is 1.975 times higher at public hospitals than at private facilities (CI95%: 1.11-3.52). None of the remaining factors analyzed proved to have a significant influence.

Conclusions: compliance with occupational risk prevention measures in Spanish GIE units is inadequate and must be improved.
Public hospitals in Spain comply with fewer occupational risk prevention measures than their private counterparts.
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