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Operation Theatre:

1. Hospital Planning

1. Location, proximity with other department


2. Layout
3. Area
4. Roof height (just for database not for this study)
5. Type of flooring (granite, kota stone, ceramic, epoxy etc.),
6. Dadoing (round, right angle and height of dado)
7. Type of wall (plain plaster, painted, granite, stainless steel, seamless etc.)
8. Type of doors (wooden/glass, one sided opening, both side opening, springs etc.)
9. Zoning system
10. Change room for doctors/ nursing staff / ward boys-Ayas and refreshment
facilities for doctor/staff /ward boy
11. Scrub areas, kind of basin,
12. Place for cleaning /disinfecting instrument
13. Intermittent place for waste
14. Availability of patient hold area
15. Flow of activities in the department (miss-match to be identified)
16. Working environment
17. Type of furniture, sufficiency, conditions,
18. Any suggestion for the staff working environments and facilities?
19. Storage of chemical, consumable facility, safety of then place

2. Staff
1. Organogram
2. Staff strengths (sanctioned, employed, on leave, etc)
3. Shift wise staff
4. Availability of Working manual
5. Availability of Job responsibility
6. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level, organisers
etc.)
7. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered or not, any
complaints, suggestions?

3. Electrical Fittings
1. Lights
2. No. of fans
3. Wiring (outdoor, covered, and the condition, pendants)
4. Height from the floor
5. No. of power sockets, is it sufficient,
6. Power related problem
7. Power back up facility,
8. Emergency light
9. Voltage stabilisers
10. UPS system, Stand by generators
4. Ventilation and AC
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1. Ventilation, Exhaust fans (specially in toilets, etc.)
2. Availability of AC, (No. and type of AC)
3. AC load,
4. Is there dedicated Central AC plant? What is capacity
5. Laminar airflow is provided or not
6. Filter cleaning routine, last when cleaned etc., responsibility, records,
7. Temperature and pressure maintained
8. Temperature, pressure, humidity measuring devices installed or not
9. How much fresh air is circulated
10. Any complaint, suggestions regarding AC

5. Water Supply

1. Availability of basin, no and conditions


2. Availability of drinking water
3. municipal supply/tank water

6. Medical gas supply

1. Types of medical gas (o2, nitrous, vacuum/ suction) and mode of supply
(cylinder, piped,)
2. no. of oxygen cylinder
3. Refilling system (in case of cylinders)
4. Problem faced/Suggestions

7. Communication System

1. Mobile/Paging /Wireless/only telephone


2. Emergency contact number
3. Any problem faced etc. for ward boys, nursing staff and doctors

8. Fire Safety

1. Fire safety system (cylinder, hydrant, sprinkles etc)


2. Type, capacity and number of cylinder and locations in the department
3. Fire detection system
4. Fire alarm system
5. Any training given
6. Mock testing done or not

9. Hospital Waste Disposal:

1. Types waste and colour coded bags and for which kind of waste it is used
2. What kind of dustbin are placed (size, lid, etc.)
3. Location of the waste collection bags (where are the bags kept in the
departments)
4. Method of disinfecting the linen, sharp and other waste
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5. Method and timing of waste transportation of waste from OT
6. Protecting instruments (gloves, face mask, head cap etc) available or not/
7. Whether staff is using those instruments or not
8. Needle burner are available or not?
9. Needle burner is used or not?

10. Infection control and Cleaning:

1. Precaution taken for self protection


2. How do you wash you hand after any procedures (liquid soap, spirit based soap,
soap cake etc.)
3. Availability of protecting materials (gloves/head cap/face mask, apron etc.)
4. Staff is inoculated or not?
5. Uses of the protecting material
6. What is the system of room cleaning
7. How often fumigation is done/What chemical is used
8. Is there UV light available in OTs
9. What is the system of equipment cleaning
10. Who is responsible and how frequently it is room and equipment cleaning is done
11. System of quality check
12. What disinfectants are used
13. Availability of Infection control policy
14. Training imparted on the infection control precautions
15. Swab testing done or not? For which areas/equipment it is taken?
16. Frequency of swab testing
17. Who is responsible
18. Results or share or not
19. What actions have been taken so for
20. Any records related to infection control is maintained?

11. Equipments:
1. List of equipment (sanctioned, present, no. in order, no. for condemnation, new
requirements) OT light(fixed, portable), OT table (automated, manual), Cautery
machines, microscopes, laryngoscope, crash cart, equipment trolley, Stat lab,
Ventilator, defibrillator, heart lung machines, cell savor, refrigerator etc.
2. Avg. no. of cases a month
3. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
4. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or not?
5. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
6. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time used)
7. Any issues or suggestions

12. Instruments:
1. List of instruments (sanctioned no. of sets, no. of sets available, no. in order, no.
for condemnation, new requirements)
2. Place of storage of instrument, who is responsible
3. System of repair/replacement
4. Who do you call if the repair
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5. Who much time does he takes
6. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
7. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many , when last time used)
8. How do you send for the sterilization
9. How much times it takes
10. What records are maintained ?
11. How many days an sterile kit is kept in the department and when is this send for
re-sterilization?
12. Any reporting cases of pilferages?
13. What action are taken?
14. Any issues or suggestions
14. Linen:
1. List of Linen (sanctioned no. of sets, no. of sets available, no. in order,
no. for condemnation, new requirements)
2. Place of storage of linen
3. System of mending/replacement
4. Who decide for mending/ Where mending is done?
5. Is replacement given for mending?
6. Who much time does he takes
7. Any issues or suggestions
8. How do you send it for the sterilisation
9. Any reporting cases of pilferages? What action are taken?
10. Any issues or suggestions
11. What records are kept in the department
15. Records
1. What records are maintained (OT register, anestheia register, narcotics
register, linen register, equipment complaint register etc.)
2. Who is maintaining which records /register
3. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is reported and what is
the purpose?
4. Who generate these reports?
5. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
6. Where are these reports kept and how long?
7. Any problem faced
8. Any suggestion?
16. Inventory
1. Who is responsible for inventory?
2. What kind of material is kept in the OT?
3. Does hospital keeps consignment items also?
4. Where are these material kept
5. Any system of LIFO/FIFO)
6. How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
7. What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific day?
8. Who bring the material from store?
9. How much time does it takes after indenting
10. System of charging/replacement from patient
11. If material found of wrong quality/specification what is the system of
replacement and how much time it takes to replace it.
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12. What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
13. What kind of record are maintained? How frequently it is verified?
14. Any case of pilferage? How it is shorted out?
15. What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is reported and
what is the purpose?
16. Who generate these reports?
17. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
18. Where are these reports kept and how long?
19. How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed asset is done.
20. Any problem faced
21. Any suggestion?

17. Quality Control


1. What are the specific quality control norms for the department
2. SOPS /Protocols are available or not?
3. Whether all the staff members are trained for SOPs
4. How do you deal with the emergency operation
5. Problems and suggestions

Intensive Care Unit:

1. Hospital Planning

1. Location, proximity with other department


2. Layout, (including bed and nursing station positions)
3. No. of bed, Area
4. Distance between two beds, privacy,
5. Location of nursing station ? is it properly place for better Pt. Care?
6. Roof height (just for database not for this study)
7. Type of flooring (granite, kota stone, ceramic, epoxy etc.),
8. Dadoing (round, right angle and height of dado)
9. Type of wall (plain plaster, painted, granite, stainless steel, seamless etc.)
10. Type of doors (wooden/glass, one sided opening, both side opening, springs etc.)
11. Change room for doctors/ nursing staff / ward boys-Ayas and refreshment
facilities for doctor/staff /ward boy
12. Scrub areas, kind of basin,
13. Place for cleaning /disinfecting instrument
14. Availability of doctor and nurse rest room
15. Clean utility room
16. Dirty utility rooms
17. Flow of activities in the department (miss-match to be identified)
18. Work environment
19. Type of furniture, sufficiency, conditions,
20. Any suggestion for the staff working environments and facilities?
21. Storage of chemical, consumable facility, safety of then place

2. Staff
1. Organogram
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2. Staff strengths (sanctioned, employed, on leave, etc)
3. Shift wise staff
4. Availability of Working manual
5. Availability of Job responsibility
6. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level, organisers
etc.) Any document is available or not
7. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered or not,
8. Any complaints, suggestions?
9. Is staff being rotated in other department, if yes how frequently?

3. Electrical Fittings

1. Lights
2. No. of fans
3. Wiring (outdoor, covered, and the condition, pendants)
4. Height from the floor
5. No. of power sockets, is it sufficient,
6. Power related problem
7. Power back up facility,
8. Emergency light
9. Voltage stabilizers
10. UPS system, Stand by generators

4. Ventilation and AC

1. Ventilation, Exhaust fans (specially in toilets, etc.)


2. Availability of AC, (No. and type of AC, load, filter cleaning routine, last when
cleaned etc., responsibility, records, temperature and pressure maintained,
temperature, pressure, humidity measuring devices installed or not
3. Any complaint, suggestions regarding AC

5. Water Supply

4. Availability of basin, no and conditions


5. Availability of drinking water

6. Medical gas supply


5. Types of medical gas (o2, vacuum/ suction) and mode of supply (cylinder, central
supply)
6. no. of oxygen cylinder
7. Refilling system (in case of cylinders)
8. Problem faced/Suggestions

7. Communication System

1. Mobile/Paging /Wireless/only telephone


2. Emergency contact number
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3. Any problem faced etc. for ward boys, nursing staff and doctors
4. Signage system

8. Fire Safety

1. Fire safety system (cylinder, hydrant, sprinkles etc)


2. Type, capacity and number of cylinder and locations in the department
3. Fire detection system
4. Fire alarm system
5. Any training given

9. Hospital Waste Disposal:

1. Types and colour coded (blue, red or black) bags and for which kind of
waste it is used
2. What kind of dustbin are placed (size, lid, etc.)
3. Location of the waste collection bags (where are the bags kept in the
departments)
4. Method of disinfecting the linen, sharp and other waste
5. Method and timing of waste transportation of waste from ICU
6. Protecting instruments (gloves, face mask, head cap etc) available or not/
7. Whether staff is using those instruments or not
8. Needle burner are available or not

10. Infection control and Cleaning:


1. Precaution taken for self protection
2. How do you wash you hand after any procedures (liquid soap, spirit based
soap, soap cake etc.)
3. Availability of protecting materials (gloves/head cap/face mask, apron etc.)
4. Uses of the protecting material
5. What is the system of ICCU cleaning
6. How often fumigation is done/What chemical is used
7. What is the system of equipment cleaning
8. Who is responsible and how frequently it is room and equipment
cleaning is done
9. System of quality check
10. What disinfectants are used
11. Availability of Infection control policy
12. Training imparted on the infection control precautions
13. Swab testing done or not? For which areas/equipment it is taken?
14. Frequency of swab testing
15. Who is responsible
16. Results or share or not
17. What actions have been taken so for
18. Any records related to infection control is maintained?

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12. Equipments:
1. List of equipment (sanctioned, present, no. in order, no. for
condemnation, new requirements) Portable OT light, laryngoscope,
crash cart, equipment trolley, Stat lab, Ventilator, Defibrillator, central
monitoring system, suction machine, IABP Machine, Nurse call system,
refrigerator etc.
2. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
3. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or not?
4. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
5. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time
used)
6. Any issues or suggestions

13. Instruments:
1. List of instruments (sanctioned no. of sets, no. of sets available, no. in
order, no. for condemnation, new requirements)
2. Place of storage of instrument, who is responsible
3. System of repair/replacement
4. Who do you call if the repair
5. Who much time does he takes
6. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
7. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many , when last time
used)
8. How do you send for the sterilisation
9. How much times it takes
10. What records are maintained ?
11. How many days an sterile kit is kept in the department and when is this
send for re-sterilization?
12. Any reporting cases of pilferages? What action are taken?
13. Any issues or suggestions

14. Linen:
1. List of Linen (sanctioned no. of sets, no. of sets available, no. in order,
no. for condemnation, new requirements)
Bed sheets, blanket, pillow, staff dress, draw sheet, etc.
2. Place of storage of linen
3. System of mending/replacement
4. Who decide for mending/ Where mending is done?
5. Is replacement given for mending?
6. Who much time does he takes
7. Any issues or suggestions
8. How do you send it for the sterilisation
9. Any reporting cases of pilferages? What action are taken?
10. Any issues or suggestions
11. What records are kept in the department

14. Records

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15. What records are maintained (linen register, equipment complaint
register, ICU census, etc.)
16. Who is maintaining which records /register
17. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is reported and what is
the purpose?
18. Who generate these reports?
19. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
20. Where are these reports kept and how long?
21. Any problem faced
22. Any suggestion?

16. Inventory
1. Who is responsible for inventory?
2. What kind of material is kept in the ICCU?
3. Where are these material kept
4. Any system of LIFO/FIFO)
5. How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
6. What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific day?)
7. Who bring the material from store?
8. How much time does it takes after indenting
9. System of charging/replacement from patient
10. If material found of wrong quality/specification what is the system of
replacement and how much time it takes to replace it.
11. What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
12. What kind of record are maintained? How frequently it is verified?
13. Any case of pilferage? How it is shorted out?
14. What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is reported and
what is the purpose?
15. Who generate these reports?
16. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
17. Where are these reports kept and how long?
18. How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed asset is done.
19. Any problem faced
20. Any suggestion?
17. Patient food:
1. What is the system of food requisition
2. Who makes the food requisition
3. What kind (normal food, diabetic food, clear food, etc.) of food is provided to the
patient?
4. What is timing of the food (for morning beverages, breakfast, lunch, evening
snacks, dinner)
5. What happen if patient is admitted in the evening
6. How the food is brought in the wards?
7. Who check the quality of the food
8. And who serves the food
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9. Any system of patient feed back on quality of food
10. What measures are taken if some patient complain or suggestion is received on
food quality and taste.
11. Any other suggestion?

18 Quality Control
1 What are the specific quality control norms for the department
2 clinical Protocols are available or not?
3 Whether all the staff members are trained for SOPs

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19. Procedures:
1. What is the admission procedures
2. Who admit the patient consultant or the ICU incharge
3. What the system for getting the lab, x-ray test to be done on patient
4. What is the system of lab test reporting
5. What is the system for transfer of the patient
6. What happen if there is no bed available in the ICCU
7. What happen if ventilator is not available
8. What is the system of discharge
9. What is there any cutoff timings for the discharge
10. Who prepares the discharge sheet of the patient
11. How much times does it takes to prepare the discharge sheet
12. Does patient complain for the discharge system
13. What kind of complain is made by the patient
14. Any suggestion to improve the system
Wards: (general, surgical, isolation, super specialty)

1. Hospital Planning

1. Location, proximity with other department


2. Layout, (including bed and nursing station positions)
3. No. of bed, Type of wards(general, private, deluxe etc) , Area
4. Distance between two beds, privacy,
5. Location of nursing station
6. Is the nursing station placed for proper monitoring of patient?
7. Roof height (just for database not for this study)
8. Type of flooring (granite, kota stone, etc.),
9. Dadoing (round, right angle and height of dado)
10. Type of wall (plain plaster, painted, granite, stainless steel, seamless
etc.)
11. Type of doors (wooden/glass, one sided opening, both side opening,
springs etc.)
12. Change room for doctors/ nursing staff / ward boys-Ayas and
refreshment facilities for doctor/staff /ward boy
13. Scrub areas, kind of basin,
14. Place for cleaning /disinfecting instrument
15. Availability of doctor and nurse rest room
16. Clean utility room
17. Dirty utility rooms
18. Flow of activities in the department (miss-match to be identified)
19. Work environment
20. Type of furniture, sufficiency, conditions,
21. Any suggestion for the staff working environments and facilities?
22. Storage of chemical, consumable facility, safety of then place

2. Staff
1. Organogram
2. Staff strengths (sanctioned, employed, on leave, etc)
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3. Shift wise staff
4. Availability of Working manual
5. Availability of Job responsibility
6. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level,
organisers etc.) Any document is available or not
7. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered or
not, any complaints, suggestions?
8. Is staff being rotated in other department, if yes how frequently?

3. Electrical Fittings

1. Lights
2. No. of fans
3. Wiring (outdoor, covered, and the condition, pendants)
4. Height from the floor
5. No. of power sockets, is it sufficient,
6. Power related problem
7. Power back up facility,
8. Emergency light
9. Voltage stabilizers
10. UPS system, Stand by generators

4. Ventilation and AC

1. Ventilation, Exhaust fans (specially in toilets, etc.)


2. Availability of AC, (No. and type of AC, load, filter cleaning routine, last
when cleaned etc., responsibility, records, temperature and pressure
maintained, temperature, pressure, humidity measuring devices installed
or not
3. Any complaint, suggestions regarding AC

5. Water Supply

1. Availability of basin, no and conditions


2. Availability of drinking water

6. Medical gas supply

1. Types of medical gas (o2, vacuum/ suction) and mode of supply (cylinder, central
supply)
2. no. of oxygen cylinder
3. Refilling system (in case of cylinders)
4. Problem faced/Suggestions

7. Communication System

1. Mobile/Paging /Wireless/only telephone


2. Emergency contact number
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3. Any problem faced etc. for ward boys, nursing staff and doctors
4. Signage system

8. Fire Safety

1. Fire safety system (cylinder, hydrant, sprinkles etc)


2. Type, capacity and number of cylinder and locations in the department
3. Fire detection system
4. Fire alarm system
5. Any training given

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9. Hospital Waste Disposal:

1. Types and colour coded (blue, red or black) bags and for which kind of waste it is
used
2. What kind of dustbin are placed (size, lid, etc.)
3. Location of the waste collection bags (where are the bags kept in the
departments)
4. Method of disinfecting the linen, sharp and other waste
5. Method and timing of waste transportation of waste from wards
6. Protecting instruments (gloves, face mask, head cap etc) available or not/
7. Whether staff is using those instruments or not
8. Needle burner are available or not

10. Infection control and Cleaning:


1. Precaution taken for self protection
2. How do you wash you hand after any procedures (liquid soap, spirit based soap,
soap cake etc.)
3. Availability of protecting materials (gloves/head cap/face mask, apron etc.)
4. Uses of the protecting material
5. What is the system of ward ‘s floor cleaning
6. What chemical is used
7. What is the system of equipment cleaning
8. Who is responsible and how frequently it is room and equipment cleaning is done
9. System of quality check
10. What disinfectants are used
11. Availability of Infection control policy
12. Training imparted on the infection control precautions
13. Swab testing done or not? For which areas/equipment it is taken?
14. Frequency of swab testing
15. Who is responsible
16. Results or share or not
17. What actions have been taken so for
18. Any records related to infection control is maintained?

12. Equipments:
1. List of equipment (sanctioned, present, no. in order, no. for condemnation, new
requirements) laryngoscope, stethoscope, crash cart, equipment trolley, Stat lab,
Defibrillator, suction machine, Nurse call system, refrigerator, etc.
2. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
3. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or not?
4. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
5. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time used)
6. Any issues or suggestions

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13. Instruments:
1. List of instruments (sanctioned no. of sets, no. of sets available, no. in order, no.
for condemnation, new requirements)
2. Place of storage of instrument, who is responsible
3. System of repair/replacement
4. Who do you call if the repair
5. Who much time does he takes
6. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
7. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many , when last time used)
8. How do you send for the sterilisation
9. How much times it takes
10. What records are maintained ?
11. How many days an sterile kit is kept in the department and when is this send for
re-sterilization?
12. Any reporting cases of pilferages? What action are taken?
13. Any issues or suggestions

14. Linen:
1. List of Linen (sanctioned no. of sets, no. of sets available, no. in order, no. for
condemnation, new requirements)
Bed sheets, blanket, pillow, staff dress, draw sheet, etc.
2. Place of storage of linen
3. System of mending/replacement
4. Who decide for mending/ Where mending is done?
5. Is replacement given for mending?
6. Who much time does he takes
7. Any issues or suggestions
8. How do you send it for the sterilisation
9. Any reporting cases of pilferages? What action are taken?
10. Any issues or suggestions
11. What records are kept in the department
15. Records
1. What records are maintained (linen register, equipment complaint register, ward
census, food register etc.)
2. Who is maintaining which records /register
3. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is reported and what is the
purpose?
4. Who generate these reports?
5. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
6. Where are these reports kept and how long?
7. Any problem faced
8. Any suggestion?

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16. Inventory
2. Who is responsible for inventory?
3. What kind of material is kept in the ICCU?
4. Where are these material kept
5. Any system of LIFO/FIFO)
6. How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
7. What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific day?)
8. Who bring the material from store?
9. How much time does it takes after indenting
10. System of charging/replacement from patient
11. If material found of wrong quality/specification what is the system of replacement
and how much time it takes to replace it.
12. What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
13. What kind of record are maintained? How frequently it is verified?
14. Any case of pilferage? How it is shorted out?
15. What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is reported and
what is the purpose?
16. Who generate these reports?
17. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
18. Where are these reports kept and how long?
19. How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed asset is done.
20. Any problem faced
21. Any suggestion?

17. Patient food:

1. What is the system of food requisition


2. Who makes the food requisition
3. What kind (normal food, diabetic food, clear food, etc.) of food is provided to the
patient?
4. What is timing of the food (for morning beverages, breakfast, lunch, evening
snacks, dinner)
5. What happen if patient is admitted in the evening
6. How the food is brought in the wards?
7. Who check the quality of the food
8. And who serves the food
9. Any system of patient feed back on quality of food
10. What measures are taken if some patient complain or suggestion is received
11. n food quality and taste.
12. Any other suggestion?

18 . Quality Control
1 What are the specific quality control norms for the department
2 clinical Protocols are available or not?
3 Whether all the staff members are trained for SOPs

19. Admission and Discharge Procedures


1. What is the admission procedures?
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2. What happen if no bed is available?
3. What the system for getting the lab, x-ray test to be done on patient
4. What is the system of lab test reporting ?
5. What happen in case of emergency ?
6. What is the system for bed transfer (from one ward to another)?
7. Who coordinates bed transfer?
8. Who accompany the patient?
9. Who prepare the patient for the operation?
10. Who accompany the patient to OT
11. How the patient handing over/taking over takes place?
12. Who get the patient consent form
13. What is the system of discharge?
14. Is there any cutoff timings for the discharge?
15. Who prepares the discharge sheet of the patient?
16. How much times does it takes to prepare the discharge sheet?
17. Does patient complain for the discharge system?
18. What kind of complain is made by the patient?
19. Any issues related to security dept.?
20. Hospital staff are given dress? How many sets? How frequently?
21. Where is the uniform cleaned?
22. In case of home washing, does the hospital provide any allowances?
23. Any other problem staff faces
24. Any suggestion to improve the system

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25. Emergency:

1. Hospital Planning
1. Location, proximity with other department
2. Layout, (including bed and nursing station positions)
3. No. of bed, Type of wards(general, private, deluxe etc) , Area
4. Distance between two beds, privacy, location of nursing station
5. Roof height (just for database not for this study)
6. Type of flooring (granite, kota stone, etc.),
7. Dadoing (round, right angle and height of dado)
8. Type of wall (plain plaster, painted, granite, stainless steel, seamless etc.)
9. Type of doors (wooden/glass, one sided opening, both side opening, springs
etc.)
10. Change room for doctors/ nursing staff / ward boys-Ayas and refreshment
facilities for doctor/staff /ward boy
11. Scrub areas, kind of basin,
12. Place for cleaning /disinfecting instrument
13. Availability of doctor and nurse rest room
14. Clean utility room
15. Dirty utility rooms
16. Flow of activities in the department (miss-match to be identified)
17. Work environment
18. Type of furniture, sufficiency, conditions,
19. Any suggestion for the staff working environments and facilities?
20. Storage of chemical, consumable facility, safety of then place

2. Staff
1. Organogram
2. Staff strengths for medical, nursing, ward boys etc. (sanctioned, employed, on
leave, etc)
3. Shift wise staff
4. Availability of Working manual
5. Availability of Job responsibility
6. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level, organizers
etc.) Any document is available or not
7. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered or not, any
complaints, suggestions?
8. Is staff being rotated in other department, if yes how frequently?

3. Electrical Fittings

1. Lights
2. No. of fans
3. Wiring (outdoor, covered, and the condition, pendants)
4. Height from the floor
5. No. of power sockets, is it sufficient,
6. Power related problem
7. Power back up facility,
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8. Emergency light
9. Voltage stabilizers
10. UPS system, Stand by generators

4. Ventilation and AC

1. Ventilation, Exhaust fans (specially in toilets, etc.)


2. Availability of AC, (No. and type of AC, load, filter cleaning routine, last when
cleaned etc., responsibility, records, temperature and pressure
maintained, temperature, pressure, humidity measuring devices
installed or not
3. Any complaint, suggestions regarding AC

5. Water Supply

1. Availability of basin, no and conditions


2. Availability of drinking water

6. Medical gas supply

1. Types of medical gas (o2, vacuum/ suction) and mode of supply (cylinder,
central supply)
2. no. of oxygen cylinder
3. Refilling system (in case of cylinders)
4. Problem faced/Suggestions

7. Communication System

1. Mobile/Paging /Wireless/only telephone


2. Emergency contact number
3. Any problem faced etc. for ward boys, nursing staff and doctors
4. Signage system

8. Fire Safety

1. Fire safety system (cylinder, hydrant, sprinkles etc)


2. Type, capacity and number of cylinder and locations in the department
3. Fire detection system
4. Fire alarm system
5. Any training given

9. Hospital Waste Disposal:

1. Types and colour coded (yellow, blue, red or black) bags and for which kind of
waste it is used
2. What kind of dustbin are placed (size, lid, etc.)

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3. Location of the waste collection bags (where are the bags kept in the
departments)
4. Method of disinfecting the linen, sharp and other waste
5. Method and timing of waste transportation of waste from emergency department
6. Protecting instruments (gloves, face mask, head cap etc) available or not/
7. Whether staff is using those instruments or not
8. Needle burner are available or not

10. Infection control and Cleaning:


1 Precaution taken for self protection
2 How do you wash you hand after any procedures (liquid soap, spirit based soap,
soap cake etc.)
3 Availability of protecting materials (gloves/head cap/face mask, apron etc.)
4 Uses of the protecting material
5 What is the system of floor cleaning
6 How often fumigation of OT /ICU is done/What chemical is used
7 What is the system of equipment cleaning
8 Who is responsible and how frequently it is room and equipment cleaning is done
9 System of quality check
10 What disinfectants are used
11 Availability of Infection control policy
12 Training imparted on the infection control precautions
13 Swab testing done or not? For which areas/equipment it is taken?
14 Frequency of swab testing
15 Who is responsible
16 Results or share or not
17 What actions have been taken so for
18 Any records related to infection control is maintained?

12. Equipments:
1. List of equipment (sanctioned, present, no. in order, no. for condemnation, new
requirements) OT light, laryngoscope, stethoscope, crash cart, equipment trolley,
Stat lab, X-ray, sonography, Defibrillator, suction machine, Nurse call system,
refrigerator, etc.
2. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
3. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or not?
4. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
5. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time used)
6. Any issues or suggestions

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13. Instruments:
1. List of instruments (sanctioned no. of sets, no. of sets available, no. in order, no.
for condemnation, new requirements)
2. Place of storage of instrument, who is responsible
3. System of repair/replacement
4. Who do you call if the repair
5. Who much time does he takes
6. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
7. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many , when last time used)
8. How do you send for the sterilisation
9. How much times it takes
10. What records are maintained ?
11. How many days an sterile kit is kept in the department and when is this send for
re-sterilization?
12. Any reporting cases of pilferages? What action are taken?
13. Any issues or suggestions

14. Linen:
1. List of Linen (sanctioned no. of sets, no. of sets available, no. in order, no. for
condemnation, new requirements)
Bed sheets, blanket, pillow, staff dress, draw sheet, apron, etc.
2. Place of storage of linen
3. System of mending/replacement
4. Who decide for mending/ Where mending is done?
5. Is replacement given for mending?
6. Who much time does he takes
7. Any issues or suggestions
8. How do you disinfect the soil linen and or how do you send it for the sterilisation
9. Any reporting cases of pilferages? What action are taken?
10. Any issues or suggestions
11. What records are kept in the department
15. Records
1. What records are maintained (linen register, equipment complaint register, ICU
census, etc.)
2. Who is maintaining which records /register
3. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is reported and what is the
purpose?
4. Who generate these reports?
5. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
6. Where are these reports kept and how long?
7. Any problem faced
8. Any suggestion?

16. Inventory
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1. Who is responsible for inventory?
2. What kind of material is kept in the ICCU?
3. Where are these material kept
4. Any system of LIFO/FIFO)
5. How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
6. What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific day?)
7. Who bring the material from store?
8. How much time does it takes after indenting
9. System of charging/replacement from patient
10. If material found of wrong quality/specification what is the system of replacement
and how much time it takes to replace it.
11. What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
12. What kind of record are maintained? How frequently it is verified?
13. Any case of pilferage? How it is shorted out?
14. What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is reported and
what is the purpose?
15. Who generate these reports?
16. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
17. Where are these reports kept and how long?
18. How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed asset is done.
19. Any problem faced
20. Any suggestion?

17. Patient food:

1. What is the system of food requisition


2. Who makes the food requisition
3. What kind (normal food, diabetic food, clear food, etc.) of food is provided to the
patient?
4. What is timing of the food (for morning beverages, breakfast, lunch, evening
snacks, dinner)
5. What happen if patient is admitted in the evening
6. How the food is brought in the wards?
7. Who check the quality of the food
8. And who serves the food
9. Any system of patient feed back on quality of food
10. What measures are taken if some patient complain or suggestion is received
11. n food quality and taste.
12. Any other suggestion?

19 . Quality Control
1 What are the specific quality control norms for the department
2 clinical Protocols are available or not?
3 Whether all the staff members are trained for SOPs

19. Admission and Discharge Procedures


1. What is the admission procedures
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2. What the system for getting the lab, x-ray test to be done on patient
3. What is the system of lab test reporting
4. What is the system for transfer of the patient
5. What happen if there is no bed available
6. What is the system of discharge
7. What is the system for bed transfer (from one ward to another)?
8. Who coordinates?
9. Who accompany the patient?
10. Who prepare the patient for the operation?
11. Who accompany the patient to OT
12. How the patient handing over/taking over takes place?
13. Is there any cutoff timings for the discharge?
14. Who prepares the discharge sheet of the patient
15. How much times does it takes to prepare the discharge sheet
16. Does patient complain for the discharge system
17. What kind of complain is made by the patient
18. Any suggestion to improve the system

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Laboratory:

1. Hospital Planning
1. Location, proximity with other department (OPD, Emergency, OT, ICU etc.)
2. Layout, (different section)
3. Type of sections (Biochemistry, Serology, Microbiology, etc) , Area
4. Roof height (just for database not for this study)
5. Type of flooring (granite, kota stone, etc.),
6. Type of wall (plain plaster, painted, granite, stainless steel, seamless etc.)
7. Type of doors (wooden/glass, one sided opening, both side opening, springs
etc.)
8. Blood Sample collection room
9. Urine and stool collection room
10. Toilet for staff
11. Working area for different sections
12. Place for cleaning /disinfecting instrument
13. Clean utility room
14. Dirty utility rooms
15. Flow of activities in the department (miss-match to be identified)
16. Work environment
17. Type of furniture, sufficiency, conditions,
18. Any suggestion for the staff working environments and facilities?
19. Storage of chemical, consumable facility, safety of then place

2. Staff
1. Organogram
2. Staff strengths for medical, nursing, ward boys etc. (sanctioned, employed, on
leave, etc)
3. Shift wise staff
4. Availability of Working manual
5. Availability of Job responsibility
6. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level, organizers
etc.) Any document is available or not
7. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered or not, any
complaints, suggestions?
8. Is staff being rotated in other department, if yes how frequently?

3. Electrical Fittings

1. Lights
2. No. of fans
3. Wiring (outdoor, covered, and the condition, pendants)
4. Height from the floor
5. No. of power sockets, is it sufficient,
6. Power related problem
7. Power back up facility,
8. Emergency light
9. Voltage stabilizers
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10. UPS system, Stand by generators

4. Ventilation and AC

1. Ventilation, Exhaust fans (specially in toilets, etc.)


2. Availability of AC, (No. and type of AC, load, filter cleaning routine, last when
cleaned etc., responsibility, records, temperature and pressure maintained,
temperature, pressure, humidity measuring devices installed or not
3. Any complaint, suggestions regarding AC

5. Water Supply

1. Availability of basin, no and conditions


2. Availability of drinking water

6. Communication System

1. Mobile/Paging /Wireless/only telephone


2. Emergency contact number
3. Any problem faced etc. for ward boys, technicians and doctors
4. Signage system

7. Fire Safety

1. Fire safety system (cylinder, hydrant, sprinkles etc)


2. Type, capacity and number of cylinder and locations in the department
3. Fire detection system
4. Fire alarm system
5. Any training given

9. Hospital Waste Disposal:

1. Types and colour coded (yellow-for histopath, blue, red or black) bags and for
which kind of waste it is used
2. What kind of dustbin are placed (size, lid, etc.)
3. Location of the waste collection bags (where are the bags kept in the
departments)
4. Method of disinfecting the sharp and other waste
5. Method and timing of waste transportation of waste from lab
6. Protecting instruments (gloves, face mask, head cap etc) available or not/
7. Whether staff is using those instruments or not
8. Needle burner are available or not

10. Infection control and Cleaning:

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1. Precaution taken for self protection
2. How do you wash you hand after any procedures (liquid soap, spirit based
soap, soap cake etc.)
3. Availability of protecting materials (gloves/head cap/face mask, apron etc.)
4. Uses of the protecting material
5. What is the system of cleaning
6. What is the system of equipment cleaning
7. Who is responsible and how frequently it is room and equipment cleaning is
done
8. System of quality check
9. What disinfectants are used
10. Availability of Infection control policy
11. Training imparted on the infection control precautions
12. Swab testing done or not? For which areas/equipment it is taken?
13. Frequency of swab testing
14. Who is responsible
15. What actions have been taken so for
16. Any records related to infection control is maintained?

12. Equipments:
1. List of equipment (sanctioned, present, no. in order, no. for condemnation,
new requirements)
Sample collection chair, Centrifuge, water bath, hot ovan, equipment trolley,
refrigerator, microscope(manual, power operated etc.), biochemistry,
microbiology, Elisa reader, ABG machines, etc.
2. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
3. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or not?
4. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
5. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time used)
6. Any issues or suggestions

13. Records
1. What records are maintained (linen register, equipment complaint register,
section wise work load, etc.)
2. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is reported and what is the
purpose?
3. Who generate these reports?
4. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
5. Where are these reports kept and how long?
6. Any problem faced
7. Any suggestion?

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14. Inventory
1 Who is responsible for inventory?
2 What kind of material is kept in the Laboratory?
3 Where are these material kept
4 Any system of LIFO/FIFO)
5 How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
6 What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific
day?)
7 Who bring the material from store?
8 How much time does it takes after indenting
9 If material found of wrong quality/specification what is the
system of replacement and how much time it takes to replace it.
10 What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
11 What kind of record are maintained? How frequently it is
verified?
12 Any case of pilferage? How it is shorted out?
13 What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is
reported and what is the purpose?
14 Who generate these reports?
15 What is the frequency of generating different reports?
16 Where are these reports kept and how long?
17 How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed
asset is done.
18 Any problem faced
19 Any suggestion?

15. Quality Control


1. What are the specific quality control norms for the department
2. Clinical Protocols are available or not?
3. Are they shared with the staff or not?
4. How often the equipment’s calibration is done,
5. Is calibration is done for all equipment
6. Any records is being maintained
7. When was the last calibration done
8. Any other quality control methods such as statistical quality control is used or
not?
19. Registration/ Charging and Reporting Procedures
1. What is the registration /and charging procedures
2. What the system for getting the lab test to be done on patient
3. What is the system sample collection (for IPD and OPD)
4. Does the lab staff go in to the ward for the sample collection
5. What are the timings
6. Any problem do they face in the ward
7. Who perform the test (qualification and/designation) / who checks it and when
(does the test performed in block as per need)
8. What happen in case of emergency?
9. What is the system of reporting

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Timings, places etc., who prepares the report (technician or ward
clerk/medical transcriptionist)
10. Any problem they face while doing dual work of conducting test as well writing
reports
11. How does the staff ensure that payment is made or not
12. What if some one comes without payment and it is emergency?
13. What is there any cutoff timings for the discharge
14. Does patient complain for the delay in report preparation
15. What kind of complain is made by the patient
16. Any suggestion to improve the system

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Blood Bank:

1. Hospital Planning
1. Location, proximity with other department (OPD, Emergency, OT, ICU etc.)
2. Layout, (different section)
3. Roof height (just for database not for this study)
4. Type of flooring (granite, kota stone, etc.),
5. Type of wall (plain plaster, painted, granite, stainless steel, seamless etc.)
6. Type of doors (wooden/glass, one sided opening, both side opening,
springs etc.)
7. Counseling area/Screening area
8. Bleeding Space
9. Cross matching
10. Record room
11. Transfusion Medicine room
12. Toilet for staff
13. Working area for different sections
14. Place for cleaning /disinfecting instrument
15. Clean utility room
16. Dirty utility rooms
17. Flow of activities in the department (miss-match to be identified)
18. Work environment
19. Type of furniture, sufficiency, conditions,
20. Any suggestion for the staff working environments and facilities?
21. Storage of chemical, consumable facility, safety of then place

2. Staff
1. Organogram
2. Staff strengths for medical, technical, nursing, ward boys etc. (sanctioned,
employed, on leave, etc)
3. Shift wise staff
4. Availability of Working manual
5. Availability of Job responsibility
6. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level,
organizers etc.) Any document is available or not
7. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered or not,
any complaints, suggestions?
8. Is staff being rotated in other department(like Pathology), if yes how
frequently?
3. Electrical Fittings

1. Lights
2. No. of fans
3. Wiring (outdoor, covered, and the condition, pendants)
4. Height from the floor
5. No. of power sockets, is it sufficient,
6. Power related problem
7. Power back up facility,
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8. Emergency light
9. Voltage stabilizers
10. UPS system, Stand by generators

4. Ventilation and AC

1. Ventilation, Exhaust fans (specially in toilets, etc.)


2. Availability of AC, (No. and type of AC, load, filter cleaning routine, last when
cleaned etc., responsibility, records, temperature and pressure maintained,
temperature, pressure, humidity measuring devices installed or not
3. Any complaint, suggestions regarding AC

5. Water Supply

1. Availability of basin, no and conditions


2. Availability of drinking water

6. Communication System

1. Mobile/Paging /Wireless/direct telephone


2. Emergency contact number
3. Any problem faced etc. for ward boys, technicians and doctors
4. Signage system

7. Fire Safety

1. Fire safety system (cylinder, hydrant, sprinkles etc)


2. Type, capacity and number of cylinder and locations in the department
3. Fire detection system
4. Fire alarm system
5. Any training given

8. Hospital Waste Disposal:

1. Types and colour coded (blue, red or black) bags and for which kind of
waste it is used
2. What kind of dustbin are placed (size, lid, etc.)
3. Location of the waste collection bags (where are the bags kept in the
departments)
4. Method of disinfecting the sharp and other waste
5. Method of disposing the blood bags etc.
6. Method and timing of waste transportation of waste from lab
7. Protecting instruments (gloves, face mask, head cap etc) available or not/
8. Whether staff is using those instruments or not?
9. Needle burner are available or not ?

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9. Infection control and Cleaning:
1. Precaution taken for self protection
2. How do you wash you hand after any procedures (liquid soap, spirit based
soap, soap cake etc.)
3. Availability of protecting materials (gloves/head cap/face mask, apron etc.)
4. Uses of the protecting material
5. What is the system of cleaning
6. What is the system of equipment cleaning
7. Who is responsible and how frequently it is room and equipment cleaning is
done
8. System of quality check
9. What disinfectants are used
10. Availability of Infection control policy
11. Training imparted on the infection control precautions
12. Swab testing done or not? For which areas/equipment it is taken?
13. Frequency of swab testing
14. Who is responsible
15. What actions have been taken so for
16. Any records related to infection control is maintained?

10. Equipments:
1. List of equipment (sanctioned, present, no. in order, no. for condemnation,
new requirements) Centrifuge, water bath, hot Ovan, equipment trolley,
refrigerator, microscope(manual, power operated etc.), Elisa reader, Walk in
coolers, Laminar airflow, plazma agitator, Aforasis machine etc.
2. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
3. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or not?
4. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
5. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time used)
6. Any issues or suggestions

11. Records
1. What records are maintained (linen register, equipment complaint register,
section wise work load, wastage of blood, chemicals etc.)
2. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is reported and what is the
purpose?
3. Who generate these reports?
4. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
5. Where are these reports kept and how long?
6. Any problem faced
7. Any suggestion?

12. Inventory

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1. Who is responsible for inventory?
2. What kind of material is kept in the Blood bank?
3. Where are these material kept
4. Any system of LIFO/FIFO)
5. How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
6. What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific day?)
7. Who bring the material from store?
8. How much time does it takes after indenting
9. If material found of wrong quality/specification what is the system of
replacement and how much time it takes to replace it.
10. What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
11. What kind of record are maintained? How frequently it is verified?
12. Any case of pilferage? How it is shorted out?
13. What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is reported and
what is the purpose?
14. Who generate these reports?
15. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
16. Where are these reports kept and how long?
17. How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed asset is done.
18. Any problem faced
19. Any suggestion?

13. Quality Control


1. What are the specific quality control norms for the department
2. Clinical Protocols are available or not?
3. Are they shared with the staff or not?
4. How often the equipment’s calibration is done,
5. Is calibration is done for all equipment
6. Any records is being maintained
7. When was the last calibration done
8. Any other quality control methods such as statistical quality control is used
or not?
14. Registration/ Charging and Reporting Procedures
1. What is the registration /and charging procedures?
2. What the system for getting the blood bag/
3. What is the system blood donation (for IPD and OPD)
4. Does the Blood bank staff go in to the ward for the bleeding /transfusion
sample collection
5. Who perform the test (qualification and/designation) / who checks it and
when (does the test performed in block as per need)
6. What happen in case of HIV positives case?
7. What is the system of reporting
a. Timings, places etc., who prepares the report (technician or ward
clerk/medical transcriptionist)
17. Any problem they face while doing dual work of conducting test as well writing
reports
18. How does the staff ensure that payment is made or not
19. What if some one comes without payment and it is emergency?
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20. What is there any cutoff timings for the Bleeding in the department
21. Does patient complain for the delay in blood donation/ issuance of blood and
its product?
22. What kind of complain is made by the patient?
23. Any suggestion to improve the system

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Imaging services:

1. Hospital Planning
22. Location, proximity with other department (OPD, Emergency, OT, ICU
etc.)
23. Layout, (different section)
24. Type of sections (X-ray, Sonography, CT Scan etc.), Area of different
sections
25. Machine room
26. Control room
27. Dark room
28. Stores
29. View Box/report writing room etc
30. Roof height (just for database not for this study)
31. Type of flooring (granite, kota stone, etc.),
32. Type of wall (plain plaster, painted, granite, stainless steel, seamless
etc.)
33. Type of doors (wooden/glass, one sided opening, both side opening,
springs etc.)
34. Led sheet protection is given to ward or not?
35. Toilet for staff
36. Working area for different sections
37. Place for cleaning /disinfecting instrument
38. Flow of activities in the department (miss-match to be identified)
39. Work environment
40. Type of furniture, sufficiency, conditions,
41. Any suggestion for the staff working environments and facilities?
42. Storage facility of fixtures, X-ray films, , safety of then place

2. Staff
1. Organogram
2. Staff strengths for medical, nursing, ward boys etc. (sanctioned, employed, on
leave, etc)
3. Shift wise staff
4. Availability of Working manual
5. Availability of Job responsibility
6. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level,
organizers etc.) Any document is available or not
7. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered or not, any
complaints, suggestions?
8. Is staff being rotated in other department, if yes how frequently?

3. Electrical Fittings

1. Lights
2. No. of fans
3. Wiring (outdoor, covered, and the condition, pendants)
4. Height from the floor
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5. No. of power sockets, is it sufficient,
6. Power related problem
7. Power back up facility,
8. Emergency light
9. Voltage stabilizers
10. UPS system, Stand by generators

4. Ventilation and AC

1. Ventilation, Exhaust fans (specially in toilets, etc.)


2. Availability of AC, (No. and type of AC, load, filter cleaning routine, last when
cleaned etc., responsibility, records, temperature and pressure maintained,
temperature, pressure, humidity measuring devices installed or not
3. Any complaint, suggestions regarding AC

5. Water Supply

Availability of basin in dark room, conditions

6. Communication System

1. Mobile/Paging /Wireless/only telephone


2. Emergency contact number
3. Any problem faced etc. for ward boys, technicians and doctors
4. Signage system

7. Fire Safety

1. Fire safety system (cylinder, hydrant, sprinkles etc)


2. Type, capacity and number of cylinder and locations in the department
3. Fire detection system
4. Fire alarm system
5. Any training given

9. Hospital Waste Disposal:

1. Types and colour coded bags (blue/red/black) used


2. What kind of dustbin are placed (size, lid, etc.)
3. Location of the waste collection bags (where are the bags kept in the
departments)
4. Method of disinfecting the sharp and other waste
5. Method and timing of waste transportation of waste from radiology dept.

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10. Infection control and Cleaning:
1. Precaution taken for self protection
2. How do you wash you hand after any procedures (liquid soap, spirit based
soap, soap cake etc.)
3. What is the system of cleaning
4. Who is responsible and how frequently it is room and equipment cleaning is
done
5. System of quality check
6. What disinfectants are used
7. Availability of Infection control policy
8. Training imparted on the infection control precautions

12. Equipments:
1. List of equipment (sanctioned, present, no. in order, no. for condemnation,
new requirements) X-ray Machine(and its capacity in MA), Portable X-ray
Machine, CT Scan, Sonography, Processors(manual/auto), capacity of
processors, View boxes,
2. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
3. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or not?
4. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
5. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time used)
6. Any issues or suggestions

13. Records
1. What records are maintained (linen register, equipment complaint register,
section wise work load, x-ray film utilisation, wastage of films, down time of
machine register etc.)
2. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is reported and what is the
purpose?
3. Who generate these reports?
4. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
5. Where are these reports kept and how long?
6. Any problem faced
7. Any suggestion?

13. Inventory
1. Who is responsible for inventory?
2. What kind of material is kept in the radiology dept?
3. Where are these material kept
4. Any system of LIFO/FIFO)
5. How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
6. What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific day?)
7. Who bring the material from store?
8. How much time does it takes after indenting
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9. If material found of wrong quality/specification what is the system of
replacement and how much time it takes to replace it.
10. What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
11. What kind of record are maintained? How frequently it is verified?
12. Any case of pilferage? How it is shorted out?
13. What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is reported and
what is the purpose?
14. Who generate these reports?
15. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
16. Where are these reports kept and how long?
17. How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed asset is done.
18. Any problem faced
19. Any suggestion?
15. Quality Control
1. What are the specific quality control norms for the department
2. Working SOPS are available or not?
3. Staff is trained for SOPS or not?
4. How often the equipment’s preventive maintenance is done,
5. Any records is being maintained
6. When was the last preventive maintenance/repair done
7. Protecting instruments (Led apron, goggle, TLD badges etc) available or not.

19. Registration/ Charging and Reporting Procedures


1. What is the registration /and charging procedures?
2. What the system for getting the radiology test to be done on patient ?
3. Does the radiology staff go in to the ward for the conducting test?
4. Any problem do you face in the wards
5. Who perform the test(qualification and/designation)
6. what happen in case of emergency?
7. What is the system of reporting
Timings, places etc., who prepares the report (technician or ward clerk/medical
transcriptionist)
8. Any problem they face while doing dual work of conducting x-ray as well
writing reports.
9. Who checks the reports, when and how frequently?
10. How does the staff ensure that payment is made or not
11. What if some one comes without payment and it is emergency?
12. What is there any cutoff timings for the discharge
13. Does patient complain for the delay in report preparation
14. What kind of complain is made by the patient
15. Any suggestion to improve the system

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OPD:

1. Hospital Planning

1. Location, proximity with other department


2. Layout, (including bed and nursing station positions)
3. No. of OPD rooms, Type of rooms (Prof, Asst. Prof. , Lect. etc) , Area,
facilities
4. Distance between two OPDs, privacy,
5. Location of nursing/ANM station?
6. Roof height (just for database not for this study)
7. Type of flooring (granite, kota stone, etc.),
8. Dadoing (round, right angle and height of dado)
9. Type of wall (plain plaster, painted, granite, stainless steel, seamless
etc.)
10. Type of doors (wooden/glass, one sided opening, both side opening,
springs etc.)
11. Treatment room
12. Clean utility room
13. Dirty utility rooms
14. Flow of activities in the department (miss-match to be identified)
15. Work environment
16. Type of furniture, sufficiency, conditions,
17. Any suggestion for the staff working environments and facilities?
18. Storage of chemical, consumable facility, safety of then place
19. Waiting area, facilities for the patient, cleanliness etc.

2. Staff
1. Organogram
2. Staff strengths (sanctioned, employed, on leave, etc)
3. Shift wise staff
4. Availability of Working manual
5. Availability of Job responsibility
6. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level,
organisers etc.) Any document is available or not
7. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered or not,
any complaints, suggestions?
8. Is staff being rotated in other department, if yes how frequently?

3. Electrical Fittings

1. Lights
2. No. of fans
3. Wiring (outdoor, covered, and the condition, pendants)
4. Height from the floor
5. No. of power sockets, is it sufficient,
6. Power related problem
7. Power back up facility,
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8. Emergency light
9. Voltage stabilizers
10. UPS system, Stand by generators

4. Ventilation and AC

1. Ventilation, Exhaust fans (specially in toilets, etc.)


2. Availability of AC, (No. and type of AC, load, filter cleaning routine, last
when cleaned etc., responsibility, records, temperature and pressure
maintained, temperature, pressure, humidity measuring devices installed
or not
3. Any complaint, suggestions regarding AC

5. Water Supply

1. Availability of basin, no and conditions


2. Availability of drinking water

6. Communication System

1. Mobile/Paging /Wireless/only telephone


2. Emergency contact number
3. Any problem faced etc. for ward boys, nursing staff and doctors
4. Signage system

7. Fire Safety

1. Fire safety system (cylinder, hydrant, sprinkles etc)


2. Type, capacity and number of cylinder and locations in the department
3. Fire detection system
4. Fire alarm system
5. Any training given

8. Hospital Waste Disposal:

1. Types and colour coded (blue, red or black) bags and for which kind of
waste it is used
2. What kind of dustbin are placed (size, lid, etc.)
3. Location of the waste collection bags (where are the bags kept in the
departments)
4. Method of disinfecting the linen, sharp and other waste
5. Method and timing of waste transportation of waste from wards
6. Protecting instruments (gloves, face mask, head cap etc) available or not/
7. Whether staff is using those instruments or not
8. Needle burner are available or not

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9. Infection control and Cleaning:
1. Precaution taken for self protection
2. How do you wash you hand after any procedures (liquid soap, spirit based
soap, soap cake etc.)
3. Availability of protecting materials (gloves/head cap/face mask, apron etc.)
4. Uses of the protecting material
5. What is the system of floor cleaning
6. What chemical is used
7. What is the system of equipment cleaning
8. Who is responsible and how frequently it is room and equipment cleaning is
done
9. System of quality check
10. What disinfectants are used
11. Availability of Infection control policy
12. Training imparted on the infection control precautions

10. Equipments:
1. List of equipment (sanctioned, present, no. in order, no. for
condemnation, new requirements) laryngoscope, stethoscope, crash cart,
equipment trolley, refrigerator, etc.
2. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
3. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or
not?
4. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
5. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time
used)
6. Any issues or suggestions

11. Instruments:
1. List of instruments (sanctioned no. of sets, no. of sets available, no. in order,
no. for condemnation, new requirements)
2. Place of storage of instrument, who is responsible
3. System of repair/replacement
4. Who do you call if the repair
5. Who much time does he takes
6. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
7. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many , when last time used)
8. How do you send for the sterilisation
9. How much times it takes
10. What records are maintained ?
11. How many days an sterile kit is kept in the department and when is this send
for re-sterilization?
12. Any reporting cases of pilferages? What action are taken?
13. Any issues or suggestions

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12. Linen:
1. List of Linen (sanctioned no. of sets, no. of sets available, no. in order, no.
for condemnation, new requirements)
Bed sheets, pillow, staff dress, towel etc.
2. Place of storage of linen
3. System of mending/replacement
4. Who decide for mending/ Where mending is done?
5. Is replacement given for mending?
6. Who much time does he takes
7. Any issues or suggestions
8. How do you send it for the sterilisation
9. Any reporting cases of pilferages? What action are taken?
10. Any issues or suggestions
11. What records are kept in the department

13. Records
1. What records are maintained (linen register, equipment complaint register,
OPD census etc.)
2. Who is maintaining which records /register
3. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is reported and what is the
purpose?
4. Who generate these reports?
5. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
6. Where are these reports kept and how long?
7. Any problem faced
8. Any suggestion?

14. Inventory
1. Who is responsible for inventory?
2. What kind of material is kept in the OPD?
3. Where are these material kept
4. Any system of LIFO/FIFO)
5. How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
6. What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific day?)
7. Who bring the material from store?
8. How much time does it takes after indenting
9. System of charging/replacement from patient
10. If material found of wrong quality/specification what is the system of
replacement and how much time it takes to replace it.
11. What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
12. What kind of record are maintained? How frequently it is verified?
13. Any case of pilferage? How it is shorted out?
14. What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is reported
and what is the purpose?
15. Who generate these reports?
16. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
17. Where are these reports kept and how long?

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18. How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed asset is
done.
19. Any problem faced
20. Any suggestion?
15. . Quality Control
1. What are the specific quality control norms for the department
2. clinical Protocols are available or not?
3. Whether all the staff members are trained for SOPs

20. Admission and Discharge Procedures


1. What is the registration procedures?
2. What the system for getting the lab, x-ray test to be done on patient
3. What is the system of lab test reporting ?
4. What happen in case of emergency ?
5. Does patient complain for the registration system?
6. What kind of complain is made by the patient?
7. Any suggestion to improve the system

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Registration/Reception and Admission counter:

1. Hospital Planning

1. Location, proximity with other department


2. Layout, (including bed and nursing station positions)
3. No. of rooms
4. Work environment
5. The furniture and comfort of the staff and the patient relatives
6. Distance between two OPDs, IPD, Diagnostics
7. Aesthetic look of the registration area
8. Waiting area
9. Facilities for the patient and cleanliness

2. Staff
1. Organogram
2. Staff strengths (sanctioned, employed, on leave, etc)
3. Shift wise staff
4. Availability of Working manual
5. Availability of Job responsibility
6. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level,
organizers etc.) Any document is available or not
7. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered or not, any
complaints, suggestions?
8. Is staff being rotated in other department, if yes how frequently?

3. Electrical Fittings

1. Lights
2. No. of fans
3. Wiring (outdoor, covered, and the condition, pendants)
4. Height from the floor
5. No. of power sockets, is it sufficient,
6. Power related problem
7. Power back up facility,
8. Emergency light

4. Ventilation and AC

1. Ventilation, Exhaust fans (specially in toilets, etc.)


2. Availability of AC, (No. and type of AC, load, filter cleaning routine, last when
cleaned etc., responsibility, records, temperature and pressure maintained,
temperature, pressure, humidity measuring devices installed or not
3. Any complaint, suggestions regarding AC

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5. Water Supply
1. Availability of drinking water

6. Communication System
1. Mobile/Paging /Wireless/only telephone
2. Emergency contact number
3. Any problem faced etc. for ward boys, nursing staff and doctors
4. Signage system
5. Public announce system

7. Fire Safety
1. Fire safety system (cylinder, hydrant, sprinkles etc)
2. Type, capacity and number of cylinder and locations in the department
3. Fire detection system
4. Fire alarm system
5. Any training given

8. Equipments:
1. List of equipment (computer etc.)
2. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
3. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or not?
4. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
5. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time used)
6. Any issues or suggestions
9. Records
1. What records are maintained (linen register, equipment complaint
register,)
2. Who is maintaining which records /register
3. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is reported and what is the
purpose?
4. Who generate these reports?
5. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
6. Where are these reports kept and how long?
7. Any problem faced
8. Any suggestion?

9. Inventory

1. Who is responsible for inventory?


2. What kind of stationary and material is kept in the dept?
3. Where are these material kept
4. How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
5. What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific day?)
6. Who bring the material from store?
7. How much time does it takes after indenting?
8. System of charging/replacement from patient?
9. If material found of poor quality/specification what is the system of
replacement and how much time it takes to replace it.
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10. What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
11. What kind of record are maintained?
12. How frequently it is verified?
13. Any case of pilferage?
14. How it is shorted out?
15. What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is reported
and what is the purpose?
16. Who generate these reports?
17. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
18. Where are these reports kept and how long?
19. How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed asset is
done?
20. Any problem faced?
21. Any suggestion?

11. . Quality Control


1. What are the specific quality control norms for the department
2. Whether all the staff members are trained for SOPs

12. Procedures
1. What is the registration procedures?
2. What the system for getting the lab, x-ray test to be done on patient
3. What is the system of lab test reporting ?
4. What happen in case of emergency ?
5. Does patient complain for the registration system?
6. What kind of complain is made by the patient?
7. Any suggestion to improve the system

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Medical Records:

1. Hospital Planning

10. Location, proximity with other department


11. Layout, (including bed and nursing station positions)
12. Medical record officer room
13. File collection and shorting for deficiency room
14. Place for doctor to correct the files
15. Records room
16. Place for the Medico Legal files
17. Work environment
18. The furniture and comfort of the staff
19. Distance with OPDs, IPD,

2. Staff
1. Organogram
2. Staff strengths (sanctioned, employed, on leave, etc)
3. Availability of Working manual
4. Availability of Job responsibility
5. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level,
organisers etc.) Any document is available or not
6. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered or
not, any complaints, suggestions?
7. Is staff being rotated in other department, if yes how frequently?

3. Electrical Fittings

1. Lights
2. No. of fans
3. Wiring (outdoor, covered, and the condition, pendants)
4. Height from the floor
5. No. of power sockets, is it sufficient,
6. Power related problem
7. Power back up facility,
8. Emergency light

4. Ventilation and AC

1. Ventilation, Exhaust fans (specially in toilets, etc.)


2. Availability of AC, (No. and type of AC, load, filter cleaning routine, last
when cleaned etc., responsibility, records, temperature and pressure
maintained, temperature, pressure, humidity measuring devices
installed or not
3. Any complaint, suggestions regarding AC

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5. Communication System
1. Telephone
2. Signage system
3. Public address system for staff

6. Fire Safety
1. Fire safety system (cylinder, hydrant, sprinkles etc)
2. Type, capacity and number of cylinder and locations in the department
3. Fire detection system
4. Fire alarm system
5. Any training given

7. Equipments/Furniture:
1. List of equipment (computer/type writer etc.)
2. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
3. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or not?
4. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
5. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time
used)
6. Any issues or suggestions

8. Records
1. What records are maintained (linen register, equipment complaint
register, MLC file, file issued, incomplete file register etc.)
2. Who is maintaining which records /register
3. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is reported and what is
the purpose?
4. Who generate these reports?
5. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
6. Where are these reports kept and how long?
7. Any problem faced
8. Any suggestion?
9. Inventory
1. Who is responsible for inventory?
2. What kind of stationary and material is kept in the dept?
3. Where are these material kept
4. How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
5. What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific day?)
6. Who bring the material from store?
7. How much time does it takes after indenting
8. If material found of poor quality/specification what is the system of
replacement and how much time it takes to replace it.
9. What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
10. What kind of record are maintained? How frequently it is verified?
11. Any case of pilferage? How it is shorted out?
12. What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is
reported and what is the purpose?
13. Who generate these reports?
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14. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
15. Where are these reports kept and how long?
16. How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed asset is
done.
17. Any problem faced
18. Any suggestion?
11. Procedures
1. What are the activities of Medical records department
2. Is shorting of incomplete files are done?
3. What kind of incompleteness is checked
4. what are the common errors
5. Which department is most commonly make these error
6. What is the process of error rectification?
7. How much time it takes usually, for error rectification
8. Does the medical staff cooperate fully for the error rectifications?
9. Till the time errors are not corrected where are files kept?
10. What action(s) are taken against medical staff?
11. Is the separate numbering done in the medical records
12. Does the hospital has ICD code booklet?
13. Is the ICD coding done for the medical records?
14. What is the system for storing the files(IPD number wise, MRD no. wise)
15. How are the files kept (vertically, in the bundles of 25 or 50 etc.)
16. Where are the MLC files kept
17. What is the system for issuing the files
18. Is the file of consultant other that treating given? if yes, whether special
permission is required ? whose? Any separate records are kept for issuing
the files etc.?
19. Does the hospital conduct Medical audit? What kind of ? what are the
outcomes and action taken so far.
20. What are the specific quality control norms for the department
21. Whether all the staff members are trained for SOPs
22. Any suggestion to improve the system

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Imaging services:

1.Hospital Planning
1. Location, proximity with other department (OPD, Emergency, OT, ICU etc.)
2. Layout, (different section)
3. Type of sections (X-ray, Sonography, CT Scan etc.), Area of different
sections
4. Machine room
5. Control room
6. Dark room
7. Stores
8. View Box/report writing room etc
9. Roof height (just for database not for this study)
10. Type of flooring (granite, kota stone, etc.),
11. Type of wall (plain plaster, painted, granite, stainless steel, seamless etc.)
12. Type of doors (wooden/glass, one sided opening, both side opening, springs
etc.)
13. Led sheet protection is given to ward or not?
14. Toilet for staff
15. Working area for different sections
16. Place for cleaning /disinfecting instrument
17. Flow of activities in the department (miss-match to be identified)
18. Work environment
19. Type of furniture, sufficiency, conditions,
20. Any suggestion for the staff working environments and facilities?
21. Storage facility of fixtures, X-ray films, , safety of then place

2. Staff
1. Organogram
2. Staff strengths for medical, nursing, ward boys etc. (sanctioned,
employed, on leave, etc)
3. Shift wise staff
4. Availability of Working manual
5. Availability of Job responsibility
6. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level,
organizers etc.) Any document is available or not
7. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered or
not, any complaints, suggestions?
8. Is staff being rotated in other department, if yes how frequently?

3. Electrical Fittings

1. Lights
2. No. of fans
3. Wiring (outdoor, covered, and the condition, pendants)
4. Height from the floor
5. No. of power sockets, is it sufficient,
6. Power related problem
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7. Power back up facility,
8. Emergency light
9. Voltage stabilizers
10. UPS system, Stand by generators

4. Ventilation and AC

1. Ventilation, Exhaust fans (specially in toilets, etc.)


2. Availability of AC, (No. and type of AC, load, filter cleaning routine, last
when cleaned etc., responsibility, records, temperature and pressure
maintained, temperature, pressure, humidity measuring devices installed
or not
3. Any complaint, suggestions regarding AC

5. Water Supply

Availability of basin in dark room, conditions

6. Communication System

1. Mobile/Paging /Wireless/only telephone


2. Emergency contact number
3. Any problem faced etc. for ward boys, technicians and doctors
4. Signage system

7. Fire Safety

1. Fire safety system (cylinder, hydrant, sprinkles etc)


2. Type, capacity and number of cylinder and locations in the department
3. Fire detection system
4. Fire alarm system
5. Any training given

9. Hospital Waste Disposal:

1. Types and colour coded bags (blue/red/black) used


2. What kind of dustbin are placed (size, lid, etc.)
3. Location of the waste collection bags (where are the bags kept in the
departments)
4. Method of disinfecting the sharp and other waste
5. Method and timing of waste transportation of waste from radiology
dept.

10. Infection control and Cleaning:

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1. Precaution taken for self protection
2. How do you wash you hand after any procedures (liquid soap, spirit
based soap, soap cake etc.)
3. What is the system of cleaning
4. Who is responsible and how frequently it is room and equipment
cleaning is done
5. System of quality check
6. What disinfectants are used
7. Availability of Infection control policy
8. Training imparted on the infection control precautions

12. Equipments:
1. List of equipment (sanctioned, present, no. in order, no. for
condemnation, new requirements) X-ray Machine(and its capacity in
MA), Portable X-ray Machine, CT Scan, Sonography,
Processors(manual/auto), capacity of processors, View boxes,
2. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
3. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or not?
4. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
5. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time
used)
6. Any issues or suggestions

13. Records
1. What records are maintained (linen register, equipment complaint
register, section wise work load, x-ray film utilisation, wastage of films,
down time of machine register etc.)
2. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is reported and what is
the purpose?
3. Who generate these reports?
4. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
5. Where are these reports kept and how long?
6. Any problem faced
7. Any suggestion?

14. Inventory
1. Who is responsible for inventory?
2. What kind of material is kept in the radiology dept?
3. Where are these material kept
4. Any system of LIFO/FIFO)
5. How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
6. What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific day?)
7. Who bring the material from store?
8. How much time does it takes after indenting
9. If material found of wrong quality/specification what is the system of
replacement and how much time it takes to replace it.
10. What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
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11. What kind of record are maintained? How frequently it is verified?
12. Any case of pilferage? How it is shorted out?
13. What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is
reported and what is the purpose?
14. Who generate these reports?
15. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
16. Where are these reports kept and how long?
17. How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed asset is
done.
18. Any problem faced
19. Any suggestion?

15. Quality Control


1. What are the specific quality control norms for the department
2. Working SOPS are available or not?
3. Staff is trained for SOPS or not?
4. How often the equipment’s preventive maintenance is done,
5. Any records is being maintained
6. When was the last preventive maintenance/repair done
7. Protecting instruments (Led apron, goggle, TLD badges etc) available
or not.

19. Registration/ Charging and Reporting Procedures


1. What is the registration /and charging procedures?
2. What the system for getting the radiology test to be done on patient ?
3. Does the radiology staff go in to the ward for the conducting test?
4. Any problem do you face in the wards
5. Who perform the test(qualification and/designation)
6. what happen in case of emergency?
7. What is the system of reporting
8. Timings, places etc., who prepares the report (technician or ward
clerk/medical transcriptionist)
9. Any problem they face while doing dual work of conducting x-ray as
well writing reports.
10. Who checks the reports, when and how frequently?
11. How does the staff ensure that payment is made or not
12. What if some one comes without payment and it is emergency?
13. What is there any cutoff timings for the discharge
14. Does patient complain for the delay in report preparation
15. What kind of complain is made by the patient
16. Any suggestion to improve the system

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OPD:

1. Hospital Planning

1. Location, proximity with other department


2. Layout, (including bed and nursing station positions)
3. No. of OPD rooms, Type of rooms (Prof, Asst. Prof. , Lect. etc) ,
Area, facilities
4. Distance between two OPDs, privacy,
5. Location of nursing/ANM station?
6. Roof height (just for database not for this study)
7. Type of flooring (granite, kota stone, etc.),
8. Dadoing (round, right angle and height of dado)
9. Type of wall (plain plaster, painted, granite, stainless steel,
seamless etc.)
10. Type of doors (wooden/glass, one sided opening, both side
opening, springs etc.)
11. Treatment room
12. Clean utility room
13. Dirty utility rooms
14. Flow of activities in the department (miss-match to be identified)
15. Work environment
16. Type of furniture, sufficiency, conditions,
17. Any suggestion for the staff working environments and facilities?
18. Storage of chemical, consumable facility, safety of then place
19. Waiting area, facilities for the patient, cleanliness etc.

2. Staff
1. Organogram
2. Staff strengths (sanctioned, employed, on leave, etc)
3. Shift wise staff
4. Availability of Working manual
5. Availability of Job responsibility
6. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level,
organisers etc.) Any document is available or not
7. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered
or not, any complaints, suggestions?
8. Is staff being rotated in other department, if yes how frequently?

3. Electrical Fittings

1. Lights
2. No. of fans
3. Wiring (outdoor, covered, and the condition, pendants)
4. Height from the floor
5. No. of power sockets, is it sufficient,
6. Power related problem
7. Power back up facility,
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8. Emergency light
9. Voltage stabilizers
10. UPS system, Stand by generators

4. Ventilation and AC

1. Ventilation, Exhaust fans (specially in toilets, etc.)


2. Availability of AC, (No. and type of AC, load, filter cleaning routine,
last when cleaned etc., responsibility, records, temperature and
pressure maintained, temperature, pressure, humidity measuring
devices installed or not
3. Any complaint, suggestions regarding AC

5. Water Supply

1. Availability of basin, no and conditions


2. Availability of drinking water

6. Communication System

1. Mobile/Paging /Wireless/only telephone


2. .Emergency contact number
3. Any problem faced etc. for ward boys, nursing staff and doctors
4. Signage system

7. Fire Safety

1. Fire safety system (cylinder, hydrant, sprinkles etc)


2. Type, capacity and number of cylinder and locations in the
department
3. Fire detection system
4. Fire alarm system
5. Any training given

8. Hospital Waste Disposal:

1. Types and colour coded (blue, red or black) bags and for which kind of
waste it is used
2. What kind of dustbin are placed (size, lid, etc.)
3. Location of the waste collection bags (where are the bags kept in the
departments)
4. Method of disinfecting the linen, sharp and other waste
5. Method and timing of waste transportation of waste from wards
6. Protecting instruments (gloves, face mask, head cap etc) available or not/
7. Whether staff is using those instruments or not
8. Needle burner are available or not
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9. Infection control and Cleaning:
1. Precaution taken for self protection
2. How do you wash you hand after any procedures (liquid soap, spirit based
soap, soap cake etc.)
3. Availability of protecting materials (gloves/head cap/face mask, apron etc.)
4. Uses of the protecting material
5. What is the system of floor cleaning
6. What chemical is used
7. What is the system of equipment cleaning
8. Who is responsible and how frequently it is room and equipment cleaning
is done
9. System of quality check
10. What disinfectants are used
11. Availability of Infection control policy
12. Training imparted on the infection control precautions

10. Equipments:
1. List of equipment (sanctioned, present, no. in order, no. for condemnation,
new requirements) laryngoscope, stethoscope, crash cart, equipment
trolley, refrigerator, etc.
2. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
3. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or not?
4. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
5. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time used)
6. Any issues or suggestions

11. Instruments:
1. List of instruments (sanctioned no. of sets, no. of sets available, no. in
order, no. for condemnation, new requirements)
2. Place of storage of instrument, who is responsible
3. System of repair/replacement
4. Who do you call if the repair
5. Who much time does he takes
6. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
7. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many , when last time used)
8. How do you send for the sterilisation
9. How much times it takes
10. What records are maintained ?
11. How many days an sterile kit is kept in the department and when is this
send for re-sterilization?
12. Any reporting cases of pilferages? What action are taken?
13. Any issues or suggestions

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12. Linen:
1. List of Linen (sanctioned no. of sets, no. of sets available, no. in order, no.
for condemnation, new requirements)
a. Bed sheets, pillow, staff dress, towel etc.
2. Place of storage of linen
3. System of mending/replacement
4. Who decide for mending/ Where mending is done?
5. Is replacement given for mending?
6. Who much time does he takes
7. Any issues or suggestions
8. How do you send it for the sterilisation
9. Any reporting cases of pilferages? What action are taken?
10. Any issues or suggestions
11. What records are kept in the department

13. Records
1. What records are maintained (linen register, equipment complaint register,
OPD census etc.)
2. Who is maintaining which records /register
3. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is reported and what is the
purpose?
4. Who generate these reports?
5. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
6. Where are these reports kept and how long?
7. Any problem faced
8. Any suggestion?
14.Inventory
1. Who is responsible for inventory?
2. What kind of material is kept in the OPD?
3. Where are these material kept
4. Any system of LIFO/FIFO)
5. How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
6. What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific day?)
7. Who bring the material from store?
8. How much time does it takes after indenting
9. System of charging/replacement from patient
10. If material found of wrong quality/specification what is the system of
replacement and how much time it takes to replace it.
11. What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
12. What kind of record are maintained? How frequently it is verified?
13. Any case of pilferage? How it is shorted out?
14. What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is reported
and what is the purpose?
15. Who generate these reports?
16. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
17. Where are these reports kept and how long?
18. How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed asset is
done.
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19. Any problem faced
20. Any suggestion?

15. . Quality Control


1. What are the specific quality control norms for the department
2. clinical Protocols are available or not?
3. Whether all the staff members are trained for SOPs

20. Admission and Discharge Procedures


1. What is the registration procedures?
2. What the system for getting the lab, x-ray test to be done on patient
3. What is the system of lab test reporting ?
4. What happen in case of emergency ?
5. Does patient complain for the registration system?
6. What kind of complain is made by the patient?
7. Any suggestion to improve the system

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Registration/Reception and Admission counter:

1. Hospital Planning

1. Location, proximity with other department


2. Layout, (including bed and nursing station positions)
3. No. of rooms
4. Work environment
5. The furniture and comfort of the staff and the patient relatives
6. Distance between two OPDs, IPD, Diagnostics
7. Aesthetic look of the registration area
8. Waiting area
9. Facilities for the patient and cleanliness

2. Staff
1. Organogram
2. Staff strengths (sanctioned, employed, on leave, etc)
3. Shift wise staff
4. Availability of Working manual
5. Availability of Job responsibility
6. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level,
organisers etc.) Any document is available or not
7. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered or not,
any complaints, suggestions?
8. Is staff being rotated in other department, if yes how frequently?

3. Electrical Fittings

1. Lights
2. No. of fans
3. Wiring (outdoor, covered, and the condition, pendants)
4. Height from the floor
5. No. of power sockets, is it sufficient,
6. Power related problem
7. Power back up facility,
8. Emergency light

4. Ventilation and AC

1. Ventilation, Exhaust fans (specially in toilets, etc.)


2. Availability of AC, (No. and type of AC, load, filter cleaning routine,
last when cleaned etc., responsibility, records, temperature and
pressure maintained, temperature, pressure, humidity measuring
devices installed or not
3. Any complaint, suggestions regarding AC

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4. Water Supply
Availability of drinking water

6. Communication System
1. Mobile/Paging /Wireless/only telephone
2. Emergency contact number
3. Any problem faced etc. for ward boys, nursing staff and doctors
4. Signage system
5. Public announce system

7. Fire Safety
1. Fire safety system (cylinder, hydrant, sprinkles etc)
2. Type, capacity and number of cylinder and locations in the department
3. Fire detection system
4. Fire alarm system
5. Any training given

8. Equipments:
i. List of equipment (computer etc.)
2. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
3. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or
not?
4. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
5. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time
used)
6. Any issues or suggestions
9. Records
1. What records are maintained (linen register, equipment
complaint register,)
2. Who is maintaining which records /register
3. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is
reported and what is the purpose?
4. Who generate these reports?
5. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
6. Where are these reports kept and how long?
7. Any problem faced
8. Any suggestion?
9. Inventory
1. Who is responsible for inventory?
2. What kind of stationary and material is kept in the dept?
3. Where are these material kept
4. How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
5. What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific
day?)
6. Who bring the material from store?
7. How much time does it takes after indenting
8. System of charging/replacement from patient

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9. If material found of poor quality/specification what is the system of
replacement and how much time it takes to replace it.
10. What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
11. What kind of record are maintained? How frequently it is verified?
12. Any case of pilferage? How it is shorted out?
13. What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is
reported nd what is the purpose?
14. Who generate these reports?
15. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
16. Where are these reports kept and how long?
17. How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed asset
is done.
18. Any problem faced
19. Any suggestion?

11. . Quality Control


1. What are the specific quality control norms for the department
2. Whether all the staff members are trained for SOPs

12. Procedures
1. What is the registration procedures?
2. What the system for getting the lab, x-ray test to be done on patient
3. What is the system of lab test reporting ?
4. What happen in case of emergency ?
5. Does patient complain for the registration system?
6. What kind of complain is made by the patient?
7. Any suggestion to improve the system

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Ambulance:

1. Hospital Planning

1. Location of ambulance parking


2. Layout, (including bed and nursing station positions)
3. Ambulance in charge room
4. No of Ambulance and type of Ambulance (general and intensive)
5. Work environment
6. The furniture and comfort of the staff

2. Staff
1. Organogram
2. Staff strengths (sanctioned, employed, on leave, etc)
3. Availability of Working manual
4. Availability of Job responsibility
5. Any CME/On job Training imparted to staff (topics, frequency, level,
organisers etc.) Any document is available or not
6. Availability of SOPS, displayed or not, staff trained or not, adhered or not, any
complaints, suggestions?
7. Is staff being rotated in other department, if yes how frequently?

3. Communication System
1. Mobile/ Wireless in the ambulance /
2. Mobile/ Wireless and Telephone in the control room
3. Signage system
4. Public address system for staff

6. Fire Safety
1. Fire safety system (cylinder etc)
2. Type, capacity and number of
3. Any training given to driver etc.

7. Equipments/Consumables:
1. List of equipment (trolley, BP Apparatus, Stethoscopes, oxygen cylinder,
ventilator, Defibrillator, Suction machine, cardiac monitor, etc.) and number of
equipments
2. List of instruments and consumables (ET tubes, Ambu bags injections,
medicines, etc.) and their quantity.
3. Who do you call if the equipment get out of order
4. Who much time does service engineer takes/Is that satisfactory or not?
5. Any body within dept trained for maintenance
6. Any spare parts kept /(which equipment, who many, when last time used)
7. How much quantity of consumable are kept in ambulance
8. What is the system of indenting?
9. Who authorizes for the making indent from main stores
10. What happen in case of emergency etc.?
11. Any issues or suggestions
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8. Records
1. What records are maintained (linen register, equipment complaint register,
consumables uses book, indent book, cssd book, log book, diesel/petrol
book, etc)
2. Who is maintaining which records /register
3. What MIS /reports are generated and for whom is reported and what is the
purpose?
4. Who generate these reports?
5. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
6. Where are these reports kept and how long?
7. Any problem faced
8. Any suggestion?
9. Inventory
1. Who is responsible for inventory?
2. What kind of stationary and material is kept in the dept?
3. Where are these material kept
4. How much quantity is kept in the department at given time?
5. What is the system of indenting (who, when, how, any specific day?)
6. Who bring the material from store?
7. How much time does it takes after indenting
8. If material found of poor quality/specification what is the system of
replacement and how much time it takes to replace it.
9. What happen in case of emergency (any cash purchase?)
10. What kind of record are maintained? How frequently it is verified?
11. Any case of pilferage? How it is shorted out?
12. What MIS /reports are generated for inventory and for whom is reported and
what is the purpose?
13. Who generate these reports?
14. What is the frequency of generating different reports?
15. Where are these reports kept and how long?
16. How often inventory checking for both consumables and fixed asset is done.
17. Any problem faced
18. Any suggestion?

10. Procedures
1. Who is What are the activities of Medical records department
2. Is shorting of incomplete files are done?
3. What kind of incompleteness is checked
4. what are the common errors
5. Which department is most commonly make these error
6. What is the process of error rectification?
7. How much time it takes usually, for error rectification
8. Does the medical staff cooperate fully for the error rectifications?
9. Till the time errors are not corrected where are files kept?
10. What action(s) are taken against medical staff?
11. Is the separate numbering done in the medical records
12. Does the hospital has ICD code booklet?
13. Is the ICD coding done for the medical records?
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14. What is the system for storing the files(IPD number wise, MRD no.
wise)
15. How are the files kept (vertically, in the bundles of 25 or 50 etc.)
16. Where are the MLC files kept
17. What is the system for issuing the files
18. Is the file of consultant other that treating given? if yes, whether special
permission is required ? whose? Any separate records are kept for issuing the
files etc.?
19. Does the hospital conduct Medical audit? What kind of ? what are the
outcomes and action taken so far.
20. What are the specific quality control norms for the department
21. Whether all the staff members are trained for SOPs
22. Any suggestion to improve the system

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