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Research Article | DOI: https://doi.org/CCSRR-RA-25-42

An Analysis of The Disinfection Supply Center's Management of Surgical Reuse Tool Cleaning as It Relates to Continuous Quality Improvement

Muhammad Waqar Mazhar *

Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University,38000,  Faisalabad, Pakistan

*Corresponding Author: Muhammad Waqar Mazhar, Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University,38000, Faisalabad, Pakistan.

Citation: Muhammad Waqar Mazhar (2025). An Analysis of The Disinfection Supply Center's Management of Surgical Reuse Tool Cleaning as It Relates to Continuous Quality Improvement, J Clinical Case Studies and Review Reports. 2(5) 42, DOI: CCSRR-RA-25-42

Copyright: Muhammad Waqar Mazhar, et al © (2025). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Received: 29 September 2025 | Accepted: 03 October 2025 | Published: 09 October 2025

Keywords: disinfection supply center; surgical reuse instrument; clean management; continuous quality improvement

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine how well surgical reuse tool cleaning is managed through continuous quality improvement. 

Methods: There were a thousand surgical tools that were cleaned and disinfected at our hospital's disinfection supply center between 2020 and 2022. Of them, 500 were randomly assigned to the observation group (OG) and 500 to the control group (CG). The CG was managed on a normal basis, whereas the OG was introduced with specific interventions. A comparison was made between the two groups with respect to the following measures: nursing management quality, cleaning effect, satisfaction with instrument cleaning and disinfection effect, instrument consumption, and adverse events of surgical tool packing.

Results: Compared to the CG, the OG had a lower incidence of surgical instrument injury (P<0.05). Compared to the CG, the OG had a lower overall incidence of adverse events related to surgical equipment packing (P<0.05). Compared to the CG, the OG had an increased qualifying rate of instrument microscopy, simulated pollutant cleaning, and Kjeldahl test, and a decreased bacterial residue rate (P<0.05). Compared to CG, OG reported higher levels of satisfaction with instrument usage (P<0.05). Environmental management quality, inventory storage, categorization packing, and cleaning process all showed an increase in OG as compared to CG (P<0.05). In comparison to the CG, the OG had higher scores in safety awareness, risk awareness, service awareness, and timely equipment provision (P<0.05).

Conclusion: Surgical mechanical cleaning, adverse event and instrument damage rates, physician satisfaction, and instrument management can all be greatly enhanced with the use of continuous quality improvement management. This makes it a worthy clinical reference for improving surgical procedures.

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