| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 醫療機構管理研究所 === 92 === An outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) occurred in serveral countries/regions in 2003. These governments developed many experiences to control the epidemics, and then, this event push them to strengthen in public health system and procedures for infection control in hospitals; serveral countries adopted the policy –of designated infectious disease control hospitals, like Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. Taiwan’s infectious disease control medical care network was developed, too. In Taiwan, a hospital designated to control infectious diseases plays two roles: as a community hospital and infectious diseases prevention hospital when there is no epidemic, but plays the role of a detention hospital when epidemic occurs.
This study focuses on developing suitable performance indicators for hospitals designated to control infectious diseases by aggregating expert panel’s consensus. First, we tried to understand the function, mission, and the history of this kind of hospital by literature review. Then, we put togather a series of performance indicators. Two rounds of Deliphi Technique were used to reach concensus in which 26 panel experts participated. Five performance indicators of high feasibility and high importance were selected: (1) the management of stock goods prepared for infectious disease control; (2) the performance of training programs for various workers in the hospital; (3) the preparation, revision, and administration of standard operation procedure; (4) the preparation, revision, and administration of the hospital level action plan for infectious disease control; (5) the preparation, revision, and practice of the contingency plan in case of emergency.
Finally, according to the results of this study, some suggestions were made for policy makers, hospital administrators, and future researchers.
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