Infection Control Risk Assessment at The Central Sterile Supply Department at Dental and Oral Hospital Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang

Abstract

Nosocomial infection or HAIs (Healthcare Associated Infections) is an infection that occurs during a patient's hospitalization or other health care facility. ICRA (Infection Control Risk Assessment) which is a process that serves to control infections that can be measured continuously by looking at the probability of infection control applications in the field and the results can be accounted for. Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD) is the proper service installation in an effort to suppress the incidence of infection. The main role of CSSD is to provide clean and sterile instruments for patient care in hospitals. This research is to describe how the picture of the application of standardized instruments of ICRA at the CSSD RSGM Unimus. The type that used in this research was a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods with cross sectional research designs. The suitability of the instrument with the hospital facility demography section was 86%, infrastructure 59%, and direct observation 41%, while the risk of infection for Infrastructure was 55.30% and Observation was 78.88%. An infection risk assessment using the ICRA instrument for outpatient settings by the CDC met conformity by 67.09% indicating that the risk of infection is included in the moderate risk category.