Relationship Between Hospitals Infection Control Practices And Patients Surgical Outcome In Private Hospitals In South-South Nigeria
Ozoko Emmanuel Eberechukwu Ph.D
Department of business administration, Faculty of management sciences Enugu state university of science and technology (ESUT)
Keywords: Private hospitals, Hospitals infection, Control practices, Patients surgical outcome
Abstract
The study was on ‘evaluation of the relationship between hospitals infection control practices and patients surgical outcome in private hospitals in south-south Nigeria. The specific objectives were to: Evaluates how hospitals infection control practices affect patients’ surgical outcome in private hospitals in South-South Nigeria. The population of the study was seven hundred and one (701) staff of nine selected hospitals in South-South Nigeria. The sample size used was the same as the population size and out of the 701copies of the questionnaire distributed, 668 (that is, 95 percent) were returned. A descriptive research design was adopted for the study. Instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire. The data collected were analysed using the Z-Test computed with SPSS version 20. The result indicated that Hospitals infection control practices positively influenced patients’ surgical outcome in private hospitals in the South-South Nigeria as reported in the probability value of Z( 95, n=701)= 5.154 ;p<0.05, the study also revealed that performance management practices do have positive effect on staff turnover in private hospitals in South-South Nigeria as reported in the probability value of Z( 95, n=701)= 5.154 ;p<0.05.The study recommended that Private hospitals should continuously and consistently improve infection control through proper waste disposal, hand washing and other infection control practices, also introduction of well-structured appraisal system in the private hospitals in the South-South Nigeria is very important and therefore recommended