• 대한통합의학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.161-172
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• 2022

Purpose : The study was to promote patient safety by analyzing the effect of dental hygienist's perception of patient safety culture on infection control activities. Methods : The study is based on a survey of 210 dental hygienists in total working in dental settings. To find out infection control activities according to patient safety culture awareness, there were 6 general characteristics, 3 teamwork within the department, 2 infection control systems, 4 surface management, 9 equipment washing, disinfection, and laundry management, 4 infectious wastes, and 3 personal protection phrases.The data was analyzed using the SPSS version 20.0, and p<.05 was adopted to decide on significance. Results : The longer dental hygienists have worked n the dental settings, the more active they become in infection control activities. Among the different types of dental care settings, general (university) hospitals had the largest number of infection control activities, followed by dental clinics, and network dental clinics, in descending order. The dental settings possessing a higher number of dental hygienists were found to conduct more infection control activities than other dental settings. In addition, it was found that when a dental setting adopts a patient safety policy across all the units in the hospital, more systems and procedures for patient safety tend to be established, and that stricter management response to error leads to improvement of infection control activities. Conclusion :In order to enhance infection control activities, infection control activity programs should develop and implement periodic reinforcement of infection control education. regular monitoring of infection control activities.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.282-293
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to examine the degree of infection control implemented at dental offices and factors affecting it in an attempt to help promote the health of dental health care workers. The subjects in this study were 180 medical personnels who worked at dental offices in the region of South Jeolla Province. A self-administered survey was conducted from April 1 to May 30, 2008, and the collected data were analyzed. The findings of the study were as follows: 1. As for the implementation of infection control at the dental offices, what the health care workers investigated did the most was post-treatment hand washing(95.0), a constant separation of infectious wastes(94.4), wearing rubber gloves all the time during medical instrument cleansing(92.8) and pre-treatment hand washing(91.7). 2. In regard to the implementation of infection control at the dental offices, what the dental personnels did the least was drying their hands with air(5.0), wearing goggles in times of treatment(23.3), receiving regular education on infection control(26.7) and putting sterilizers to a performance test on a regular basis(43.9). 3. The dental health care workers were significantly different according to age in the management of contagious diseases(p=0.005). Their career made a significant difference to the management of contagious diseases(p=0.000) and instrument cleansing/sterilization(p=0.043). The service area made a significant difference to wearing and managing personal protective clothes (p=0.040) and waste management(p=0.040). 4. Concerning the relationship between the acquisition of dental hygienist certificate and the practice of infection control, whether the dental health care workers were certified or not made no significant difference to that. 5. As to the correlation among the factors affecting the prevention and management of contagious diseases, there was a positive correlation among hand washing(r=0.379), wearing and managing personal protective clothes(r=0.349), instrument cleansing/sterilization(r=0.323) and waste management(r=0.388). All the factors made a statistically significant difference to the prevention and management of contagious diseases(p<0.01).

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.141-146
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• 2017

최근 지속적으로 발생하고 있는 메르스와 같은 신종 감염병은 초기발견, 격리, 위기대응 등 많은 대응책을 필요로하고 있으며 아울러 일반인의 문병과 간호 간병 통합서비스 시행 등 병원의 문화가 바뀌는 추세이다. 그러나 병원에서 근무하는 의료인의 자격조건, 규정 등이 까다로와지면서 해외에서는 린넨, 폐기물, 수액 이동 등 로봇으로 가능한 부분은 대체하는 추세이다. 본 연구에서는 병원 내에서 발생하는 각종 물품의 배송 업무를 수행할 수 있는 IoT 기반의 병원 물류 로봇으로 다양한 종류의 물건을 원하는 위치까지 안전하게 이동 할 수 있는 기술에 대하여 연구하였다. 병원 내 로봇의 이동은 사람 또는 사물간 충돌을 발생 시킬 수 있기 때문에 충돌을 최소화 해야 한다. 충돌을 최소화하기 위해서는 로봇의 이동 경로에 사물의 유무를 판단하고 사물이 있다면 이동하는 것인지 아닌지를 인지해야 한다. 그래서 얼굴/전신정보 검출과 3D Vision 영상분할 기술을 이용하여 장애물의 상황 정보를 생성하였다. 생성 된 정보를 활용하여 로봇 이동 범위 내 사물과 사람을 고려한 맵을 생성하여 로봇이 안전하고 효율적으로 운행 될 수 있도록 하였다.