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F Akbari Haghighi, E Jaafari Pooyan,
Volume 8, Issue 3 (7 2010)
Abstract
Background: Various studies have highlighted the importance of accreditation as a ubiquitous performance measurement system of hospitals. However, the effectiveness of this mechanism has not been addressed, as much it deserves, in developing countries. Therefore, current study intends to investigate the performance of the system using the SERVQUAL model.
Material and Methods: This research is an applied and cross-sectional survey. Decision-making Board of Hamedan Hospitals (N= 200) constitutes the target group. A self-administered questionnaire including both structured and open-ended questions has been used for data collection. Analysis of the quantitative and qualitative data was conducted using SPSS and Thematic Content Analysis (TCA), respectively.
Results: Only 39 percent of the target group had high awareness of current accreditation programme.
The highest rate of gap, 55.8%, between the group's perceptions and expectations from accreditation system, belonged to the indicator of staff's satisfaction and the lowest rate, 17.3%, to structures and establishments.
Conclusion: The low score of the target group's perceptions towards the accreditation programme could be a sign of the low degree of their satisfaction, which might result in their poor cooperation. More and effective attention to hospital managers' views, recommendations and reactions might be an appropriate preventive solution.
N Nasiriad, A Rashidian, H Joodaki , F Akbari Haghighi, M Arab,
Volume 9, Issue 1 (9 2010)
Abstract
Objective: the aim of this study was to determine the types of relationships and problems between basic insurance organizations and university hospitals.
Methods: this is a qualitative study conducted in 2010. We interviewed revenue officials of hospital and resident representatives of insurance organizations in nine hospitals affiliated to the Tehran University of Medical Sciences using semi-structured interview techniques. Interviews focused on relationships, problems and solutions between basic insurers and hospitals. We used the framework method for the analysis of qualitative data.
Findings: six themes were identified: relationship between insurers and hospitals, supervision tasks of insurers in hospital, causes of deductions, deduction solutions, hospital problems with insurer organizations, and insurers' representatives problems with hospitals. Conclusions: Hospitals and basic insurer should establish effective communications. The results of such relationships, in addition to solve their own problems, helps the patients. Inappropriate relationship between hospital and basic insurer organizations mostly affects the patients.
R Shahrabadi , B Moeini , Gh Roshanai , S Dashti , V Kafami , M Haghighi ,
Volume 12, Issue 4 (3-2014)
Abstract
Background: Health care providers`culture about the patient safety means accepting and considering patient safety as the first priority and organizational core value or health center`s staffs beliefs, perceptions and trends of on patient safetywhich is reflected in their behavior. This study is aimed to assess nurses perceptions of patient safety culture`s dimensions which is working in hamadan`s hospital.
Materials & Methods:The method of this study is descriptive- analytical type and statistical society includes 215 nurses of 3 hospitals of Hamadan which had been selected by random sampling. Stanford patient safety culture questionnaire was used to assess dimensions of patient safety culture.The data were analyzed by SPSS 15 software and descriptive tests.
Results: The result indicated that all dimensions of patient safety culture through nurses` perception are weak . Among these dimensions, the " Unit Leadership for Safety " with 25.21 percentage and "Learning and Feedback " with 41.82 percentage were the lowest and highest positive rating in all three hospitals respictively .
Conclusion: According to weak rate of all patient safety culture`s dimensions in studied hospitals, performing training programs by head nurses is suggested in order to improve cultural concepts such as establishing “supportive mechanisms for patients families” and "culture of discussion of errors among nurses" .
F Akbari Haghighi, Z Koohi Rostamkalaee, A Pourreza , A Rahimi Forshani ,
Volume 13, Issue 2 (8-2014)
Abstract
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Background: Organizational commitment is an important occupational attitude which demonstrates personnel staffs liability for their organization. This study aimed at assessing the level of nurses’ organizational commitment in selected hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2011.
Materials and Methods: In this cross - sectional study, 363 nurses with BS and MS degree who employed in selected hospitals of TUMS were chosen using random sampling method. Data were collected using a 2-section questionnaire including demographic variables and organizational commitment. With the intention of data analysis, descriptive statistics, independent t -test, chi square, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney tests were conducted. Significant level assumed at 0.05.
Results: Study results confirmed that organizational commitment and its all dimensions (affective, continuous and normative) were in moderate level (65.87± 15.32). The Level of organizational commitment had significant relation to job position (P<0.001), ward type (P<0.001), years of experience (P=0.03), and the hospitals (P=0.004). There was no significant relationship between demographic variables and organizational commitment (P>0.05).
Conclusion: Since, None of the demographic variables revealed significant association with organizational commitment and occupational and organizational factors had significant relation with organizational commitment, it seems that personal factors should not be considered as the main criteria of recruiting committed nurses
Feizollah Akbari Haghighi , Ebrahim Jafari Poyan , Negar Aghighi,
Volume 13, Issue 3 (12-2014)
Abstract
Background: Monitoring and/or control are the management main duties. This duty is so important which some of authorities believed that efficient management depends on Effective Control System (ECS).This study aimed at identifyingbarriersandfacilitators of performance monitoring and providing some strategies for effective health care monitoring.
Materials and Method: This study was a qualitative one which data was collected bySemi-structured questionnaire filled by interview in2011-2012 and analyzed usingframeworkanalysis. Study population consisted of 25 experts and directors of care/treatment performance monitoring.
Results:Based on study results, nineconceptswere extracted as following:specialized nature of treatment performance monitoring, health assessors’ education, work experience in line units, prerequisites for new treatment performance monitoring, personal characteristics of care monitoring expert, managerial support of assessors, culture of monitoring process acceptability, facilitators and barriers of monitoring. Based on these concepts, 28 codes were identified.
Conclusion: Experienced assessors’ assessment, based on their specialty professionals’accurate and applied systematic education and management support are main items which will be result in more effective care/treatment performance monitoring.
