Quality Improvement in Health Care (한국의료질향상학회지)

Korean Society for Quality in Health Care (한국의료질향상학회)
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A Study on Developing Free Size Patient Clothing

Free size 환자복 개발을 위한 실험적 연구

  • Hwang, Hyo Young (Department of Custom Design, Yeongnam Junior College) ;
  • Song, Jung A (Department of Clothing & Design, Sangju National Polytechnic University) ;
  • Song, Jung Hup (Department Occupational Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital)
  • 황효영 (영남전문대학 의상과) ;
  • 송정아 (상주산업대학 의상디자인학과) ;
  • 송정흡 (경북대학교병원 산업의학과)
  • Published : 1998.05.31
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Abstract

Background : Hospitals in Korea are in trouble at ecomomic matters because of low cost of medical insurance, and consumers' demand for high quality. The management of inpatient clothing is very difficult. Especially the management of patient's clothing size is very difficult because the case mix of patients in wards is very different from the stocked clothing size. Because of the economic matters, the ward does not prepare enough size of clothing. The nurses in ward are in trouble with managing the clothing. So the nurses want free size patient clothing for ease management of clothing size. Method : The experimental inpatinets clothing is designed for in 170cm height refer to Korean standard. The fit of 8 subjects from 150 cm to 185 cm wearing experimental were evaluated by clothing specialists, nurses and patients. Result : 75.8% of evaluators like free size clothing. This results show that the fit of subjects from 160cm to 180cm was good in general but subjects with 150cm, 155cm, 185cm height showed poor fit.

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