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Background: providing human resources is one of the most important factors to achieve the organization goals. Human resources are the most valuable aspect in production and service delivery. Staff shortages and excesses can be effective in reducing quality of services.This study aimed at assessing the hospitals' human resources condition from 2001 to 2014.

Materials and Methods: This review article extracted required information from ISI, Pubmed, Scopus, Wiley, Proquest, Emerald, Magiran, SID ,Iranmedex, Google, Google scholar and other related database considering keywords Human resource, Human resource management, Staff, Workforce, Hospital ,Iran, staff nursing, medical, physician personnel with Persian equation.  Searched Articles Search Based on article objectives analyzed step to step with arrangement with study title, abstract and full text.

Results: Findings revealed that the majority of hospitals faced to lack and inappropriate distribution of human resources especially in medicine and nursing but there was no shortage in logistic, financial, paramedics and allied professional human resources.

Conclusions: Correct and appropriate human resources management, planning due to compensated inadequate human resources and raising them to a standard level can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of hospital activities.