Liddle J L, Harris M F
Department of General Practice, Fairfield Hospital, Sydney, NSW.
Med J Aust. 1995 Apr 3;162(7):366-8.
To describe how general practitioners store vaccines.
A cross-sectional descriptive survey of general practices and observation of storage procedures for vaccines.
South-western Sydney between September and December 1993.
232 randomly selected general practitioners working in south-western Sydney, of whom 76% responded to a questionnaire. Vaccine storage was observed in 20 general practices.
At 80% of practices, one person was responsible for vaccine storage. Only 30% of respondents used a vaccine-only refrigerator. Only 16% of respondents had a means of measuring temperature, while 5% kept a record of refrigerator temperature. Of the general practices that were monitored, the measured temperature of 70% of the refrigerators used for storing vaccines was within the recommended range of 2 degrees C-8 degrees C.
Vaccine storage would improve in general practices in south-western Sydney if vaccine-only refrigerators were used and temperature was monitored with maximum-minimum thermometers.
描述全科医生如何储存疫苗。
对全科医疗进行横断面描述性调查，并观察疫苗储存程序。
1993年9月至12月期间的悉尼西南部。
随机选取的232名在悉尼西南部工作的全科医生，其中76%对问卷作出了回应。在20家全科医疗单位观察了疫苗储存情况。
80%的医疗单位由一人负责疫苗储存。只有30%的受访者使用专用疫苗冰箱。只有16%的受访者有测量温度的手段，而5%的人记录了冰箱温度。在接受监测的全科医疗单位中，70%用于储存疫苗的冰箱测量温度在推荐的2摄氏度至8摄氏度范围内。
如果使用专用疫苗冰箱并用最高最低温度计监测温度，悉尼西南部全科医疗单位的疫苗储存情况将会改善。
