Showing 29 results for Akbari
M Mohegh, A Pourreza, A Rahimi, A Akbari Sari, M Nekouymoghadam,
Volume 11, Issue 3 (20 2012)
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Background: People give you an idea about variety of behaviors when confronting diseases. Different factors such as age, sex, economic and social situations have effect on its. Recognition of these behaviors helps politicians to deliver better services. This study aimed to identify health seeking behaviors of Zoroastrian residing in Yazd province due to advanced number of them in comparison to the other provinces.
Materials & Methods: This study is a cross sectional. The sample size was 196 cases which selected by using simple sampling method. The data was collected via the questionnaire, then data were analyzed by spss.11 software with two test of chi square and exact test of Fisher.
Results: The findings showed that 64.3% of the population was female whereas remaining 35.7% were male. 15.58% of participants were single, 76.5% married and the rest of them (7.7%) were widow. Data indicated that 4.1% of individuals were illiterate, 17.3% were high school , 51.3% had diploma, 23.5% had Bachelors degree and 3.6% had Masters Degree or Ph.D. 43.4% of studied population were unemployed and the rest of them (46.7%) were employed. 94.4% of participants had health insurance whereas 5.6% did not had uninsured card. The results showed that the following direct variables had relation with the following mentioned indirect variables sex with the action during the period of being sick, Place of born with reasons of neglecting sickness, marital status with action during the period of being sick, educational status with action during the period of being sick and referring to practitioner in different stages if sickness and using consultation of different groups, occupational status with the first place to get medical treatment, economical status with reasons of neglecting sickness and completion of treatment period and having health insurance with action during the period of being sick and using consultation of different groups.
Conclusion: Considering the fact that educational, occupational and economic status have relation with health seeking behaviors in individuals, developed in education and occupation status could be lead a chance to choose a better health behavior in people.
M Arab, H Ghiasvand, Ra Darroudi, A Akbari Sari, M Hamidi, J Moghri,
Volume 11, Issue 3 (20 2012)
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Background: Regarding to the escalating costs of health care and limited resources in this field, the appropriate identification and control of costs is inevitable. This Study aimed to determine the unit cost of radiology services, in selected hospitals of TUMS.
Materials & Methods: This was a descriptive retrospective study. At first, we selected two hospitals (Shariati and Sina) out of general - teaching hospitals of TUMS randomly. After gathering data, using activity based costing method, the unit costs of radiography services in these centers in 1389 fiscal year (2010-2011) were calculated.
Results: The unit costs of radiography services in Shariati and Sina hospitals were 251255,5 and 334996,2 respectively. Building rent and human resources costs included the most share of total costs.
Conclusion: The unit cost of radiography services in this study is very different comparing with other studies. Calculated building rent costs in this study could be one of the possible reasons of this difference (other studies did not consider this costs). The other point is that, regarding the high share of human resources and building costs from total costs, special attention to these sources of costs and appropriate and adequate use of them, can be an important step toward improving the efficiency and cost savings in our national health system.
S Ghaffari, A Mohamadzadeh, S Akbari, P Salem Safi, M Yousefi,
Volume 11, Issue 4 (17 2013)
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Background: The scarcity of resources and growing demand for health care, as well as moral, socioeconomic and political imperatives for efficient use of resources, make cost information and adoption of an accurate methodology an integral part of the modern management.
Materials & Methods: At first, a research protocol including literature review strategies, inclusion and exclusion criteria and data gathering methods, was designed. Afterwards, using an electronic search of several databases, some relevant studies were identified.
Results: In the costing literature the economic and accounting approaches are distinguishable. Two methods of marginal and average unit cost analyses are attributable to these approaches. Considering the type of the problem to be decided about and cost targets, costing methods can be different. Factors such as types of cost analyses and economic evaluation, timing overview, analysis approach and advantage or disadvantage of economy of scale have a significant role in determining the costs.
Conclusion: Having no consensus of opinion on the most appropriate principles to use in costing process is one of the main challenges of the time. There is a trade-off between the accuracy and cost of achieving cost information... Therefore, standardization of costing methodologies and adoption of comprehensive approaches for the main issues will predispose an economical international and organizational comparability.
L Vali, A Pourreza, B Ahmadi, A Akbari Sari,
Volume 11, Issue 4 (17 2013)
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Background: aging is a very sensitive period of life and paying attention to the problems and requirements of this period seems to be a social necessity. Improving medication for old patients is challenging and sometimes medication`s benefits are less than its disadvantages for the patient.Because of the numerous evidences of problems caused by medication in the elderly in the recent decade, many specialists and physicians have introduced tools and techniques for identifying these problems which are caused by medication and prescription of risky medicines.
Materials and Methods: Several methods, tools and criteria for assessment of quality of medication and medicine prescription in elderly have emerged since 1990.. We found out two categories of criteria reviewing the literature which are generally named as distinct criteria (criterion based) and implicit criteria (judgement based).
Result:The distinct category including Beers, Zhan, McLeod, Laroch and STOP/START criteria are all developed by a panel of experts and consensus in several stages. The second category of criteria concentrates on evaluation of clinical information.
Conclusion: All the tools and methods described in this study are used in Europe and in the USA which have limited market similarities with our country thereforedevelopment of tools for assessing prescription quality for the elderly in Iran is absolutely necessary.
M Soofi , A Rashidian , F Aabolhasani , A Akbari Sari, M Bazyar ,
Volume 12, Issue 2 (9-2013)
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Background: Achieving equitable financial contribution and removing the risk of households' exposure to catastrophic expenditures are the most important challenges for health systems all over the world. This study aimes to measure Iranian households' exposure to catastrophic health care expenditures and surveying the factors affecting this expenditure, based on the World Health Organization and the World Bank approach.
Materials & Methods: Sectional data of the World Health Survey in Iran in 2001 has been analyzed. This survey covered 10300 urban and rural households across the country. The catastrophic expenditure has been calculated based on the ability to pay in the thresholds of 40, 50, and 60 percent and the income at the threshold of 20 percent. Logistic regression model was used to examine factors influencing catastrophic health expenditures.
Results: The proportion of families confronting catastrophic health expenditures was estimated at 9-15 per cent. Facing catastrophic expenditures showed a statistically significant relationship with variables such as having a family member suffering from a chronic disease, family`s financial condition, and living in rural areas regardless of the thresholds used. The insurance coverage showed a statistically significant relationship with exposure of catastrophic health expenditure just in case it was measured using the 40% threshold.
Conclusion: Political interventions and policies of the government such as implementing fee exemptions for certain target groups, designing benefits packages, extending population coverage through prepayment mechanisms and protecting the poor and disadvantaged groups can protect households from experiencing catastrophic health expenditures.
M Arab , M Shafiee , M Iree , H Safari , F Habibi , A Akbari Sari , R Khabiri ,
Volume 12, Issue 3 (12-2013)
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Background: Family physician plan is a form of health care delivery system which its correct implementation results in health promotion. Being aware of family physicians’ viewpoints towards their occupation would play an important role in its better implementation. The present study aims to to investigate family physicians` attitude who are working in health centers affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences towards their profession.
Materials and Methods: This qualitative study was conducted in 2011. In order to reach information saturation , the data were collected by performing two singular interviews and four focus group discussions among all 33 physicians working at health care centers of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Eventually, data were analyzed using conceptual framework method.
Results: Data analysis indicated three general concepts. The first issue is the factors that encourage physicians to choose family physician profession and continue doing it (including economical, cultural and environmental factors and work conditions). The second one is the study challenges (including preparation to implement the plan, work conditions and professional limits) and the final one is the reforms needed for its correct and proper implementation ( in policy making and administrative level).
Conclusion: Regarding the issue that economical, cultural and environmental factors and work atmosphere have the main role in motivating family physicians, the most important challenges the plan confronts are also related to these factors and major and minor reforms are needed to overcome these challenges. Moreover preparing society’s culture would surely result in better implementation of the plan.
M Mahdavi, M Arab , M Mahmoudi , A Fayazbakhsh , F Akbari ,
Volume 12, Issue 4 (3-2014)
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Background: This study is aimed to compare organizational commitment and intention to leave among employees in Teheran`s hospitals.
Materials and Methods: In this survey 3 hospitals with different ownership`s type were examined included: A public hospital, a hospital owned by Social Security Organization, and a private hospital. The data were collected by distributing 450, questionnaires among 450 employees, which were randomly chosen.
Results: Among all studied subjects few employees allocated high score of organizational commitment to themselves .This average rate is nearly 20%. Committed employees were impressively low in the Social Security hospitals compared to others. Comparing intention to leave indicate revealed the Public hospital`s employees have lowest scores among all subjects. There is a statistical significant correlation between commitment`s components and intention to leave.
Conclusion: Generally the majority of employees have average and low organizational commitment. Employees with high level of commitment and high level of intention to leave make a small proportion of all hospital employees. Social security hospitals must be taken into consideration due to the levels of commitment and intention to leave.
M Panahi , A Pourreza , F Akbari , A Rahimi , Z Khalili ,
Volume 12, Issue 4 (3-2014)
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Background: In the hospital setting, the potential for conflict is considerably high, because of the frequent and complicated interactions among nurses, physicians and other medical team staff and also the variety of their roles. With regards to the destructive conflict between physician and nurse which can negatively impact on the quality of health care delivery, this study aimed to investigate sources of conflict between physicians and nurses.
Materials & Methods: The study population involved a total of physicians and nursing cadre employed in 4 hospitals affiliated to Ardebil University of Medical Sciences. 260 subjects were selected by both census and Simple random sampling methods. Data collection process was accomplished through questionnaire that its reliability and validity were confirmed. Data analysis was done using the Descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis tests.
Results: Inequality in the social status between physicians and nurses from the perspective of patients and their attendants and also inequality in distribution of immaterial benefits between two forementioned groups (mean=3.23) were the most leading factors in arising conflict. The Social economic system (p<0.001), the health system (p=0.013), the hospital system (p<0.001) and interpersonal relations (p<0.001) variables had a significant relationship with the organizational position.
Conclusion: creating appropriate social and cultural contexts in order to promote the social status of nursing profession as well as improving the organization and its management could be effective to prevent or at least mitigate conflict between physicians and nurses.
M Keshavarz, A Akbari Sari, A Rahimi Foroshani, M Arab,
Volume 13, Issue 1 (6-2014)
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Background: Accreditation is a program that is designed for evaluation of health care organizations and measured processes and structures according to predetermined standards. The purpose of this study is to survey the safety situation and quality of care in selected hospitals of Tehran University of medical sciences based on the Joint Commission International (JCI) standards and determination of their strengths and weaknesses.
Materials and Method: This descriptive, analytical and cross-sectional study was carried out in 5 hospitals. Translated Joint Commission International (JCI) questionnaire checklist with 14 standards was used as the study tool. Data entry and statistical analysis were performed using the SPSS.13 and K Independent Samples tests were used to compare hospitals.
Results: Highest quality and safety of care score belonged to the hospital B (84%) and then to hospitals C (83%), A (72.75%), E (72%) and D (70.5%). Central indices like patient and family rights, quality improvement and patient safety, infection prevention and control standards in the studied hospitals are completely different according to the statistical results.
Conclusion: Study results show that the status of hospitals in terms of safety and quality of care are almost appropriate but in some cases there is a large distance between JCI standards and their current status and the studied hospitals have to make appropriate and related policies in order to plan and implement proper programs to improve their situation in quality and safety of care.
M Arab , M Sharifi , M Mahmoudi , B Khosravi , R Hojabri , A Akbari Sari , B Ahmadi , F Eftekhar,
Volume 13, Issue 2 (8-2014)
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Background:In recent years, clinical governance introduced as amodel to determine continuous quality improvement principals in health services. This study considers assessing the readiness of selected hospitals clinical governance programsimplementation by using CGCQ instrument.
Material and Methods: The survey was conducted in 14 private and public Hospitals in order to assess hospitals’ readiness to clinical governance programs implementation in Tehrancity. In this regards, 800 health professionals including physicians and nurses were inquired. Collected data analyzed by SPSS17 using correlation coefficient, mean comparison and descriptive tests.
Results:Based on study results, both private and public hospitals had readiness to implement clinical governance program. Results of field survey revealed mean score of organizational climate of clinical governance (3.14) is higher than average score (2.5) in selected Hospitals.
Conclusion: This survey demonstrated the necessary readiness to implement clinical governance programs is in an acceptable rangein assessed hospitals. Moreover, there is a big effort to use a unique and comprehensive strategy with the intention ofcontinuous quality improvement in health services.
F Akbari Haghighi, Z Koohi Rostamkalaee, A Pourreza , A Rahimi Forshani ,
Volume 13, Issue 2 (8-2014)
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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
Mohammad Akbari Booreng, Maryam Khodadadi, Majid Akbari,
Volume 13, Issue 3 (12-2014)
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Background:An organization`s effectiveness and efficiency is strongly dependent on its staff`s commitment. Therefore, identification of organizational commitment and its related variables seems necessary. This study is aimed to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment.
Materials & Methods: This is a descriptive correlation survey. Our study statistical population included all administrative staff of in southern Khorasan province` hospitals. 110 samples were chosen by a stratified random sampling. The data were collected by standard questionnaires of emotional intelligence and organizational commitment and analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: The results showed that organizational commitment is in the moderate level among administrative staff. There is a statistically significant relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment. There is a statistically significant relationship between emotional intelligence and commitment subcomponents(normative and emotional commitment). By performing multiple regression analysis ,the outcome showed among the all emotional intelligence subcomponent ,solely “self-awareness” can predict organizational , emotional and normative commitment .
Conclusion: Improving individual's emotional intelligence should be taken into consideration due to the strong bond between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment.
Feizollah Akbari Haghighi , Ebrahim Jafari Poyan , Negar Aghighi,
Volume 13, Issue 3 (12-2014)
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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.
Dr Mohammad Arab, Farhad Habibi Nodeh, Dr Abbas Rahimi Foroushani, Dr Ali Akbari Sari,
Volume 13, Issue 4 (3-2015)
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Background: Hospital waste need a very sensitive and cautious attention due to holding hazardous, toxic, and pathogenic factors such as infectious, pharmaceutical, pathological, chemical and radioactive left-overs. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the observance of safety measures by workers responsible for collecting hospital wastes in the public hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of medical sciences.
Methods and Materials: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study was conducted in 1391. Data were collected through using a questionnaire. According to the frequency distribution, total score for participants was divided into three weak (<26), average (26-30), and high (>30) categories. Data were analyzed by the SPSS 18 software using T-Test, one-way ANOVA and regression analysis.
Findings: Based on the results, 33.3% of hospitals received suitable, 55.5% received average and the remaining (11.2%) received a weak score regarding safety measures. Moreover, there was a statistically significant correlation between cleaning staff’s characteristics (education, age, work experiences and their training) with their safety status score.
Conclusion: Implementing current national principles and standards and conquering shortages, proper planning, using young workers alongside with experienced ones, more training courses and respecting and paying enough attention to cleaning staff would help to improve the safety of collecting hospital wastes.
Leila Doshmangir, Fereshteh Torabi, Hamid Ravaghi, Ali Akbari Sari, Hakimeh Mostafavi,
Volume 15, Issue 1 (6-2016)
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Background: Medical errors and adverse events are the main reasons of many avoidable deaths and imposed expenditures in worldwide health systems. Hence, this study aimed to recognize some challenges, medical errors and adverse events, and to address the appropriate solutions in order to solve them in the Iranian health system.
Materials and Methods: This qualitative study had three main data resources including key informants, national documents and expert panel. Key informants (30 persons) and experts (12 persons) were selected purposefully from macro, meso and micro levels of health system and some other health related organizations. Data were interpreted and analyzed through a mixed (inductive/deductive) thematic framework.
Results: Although, most reasons of medical errors were in relation with weak patient security system and low level security culture in hospitals, other factors like manpower, physical and external agents of hospital environment induced these errors as well. The most considerable solutions to decrease the medical errors comprised identification of medical error reasons in different levels of heath system, errors documentation and generation a consolidated system for recognition and following the errors and their main causes.
Conclusion: Relieveing the reasons of medical errors and adverse events can be a great step to prevent them. In order to eliminate the medical errors and its challenges, it is necessary to develop the consonant programs in national level via conclusive will of organizations, groups and related individuals.
Abdorrahman Mosahneh, Batol Ahmadi, Ali Akbarisari, Abbas Rahimi Foroshani,
Volume 15, Issue 3 (8-2016)
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Introduction: Medication process to patients is one of the most important tasks of nurses and doing in correct way can play a significant role in patient safety. This issue is the most significant part of quality care which consisted of patient safety as the impotant element. Medication errors are the main threatening factors of patients' safety. This study aimed at assessing the causes of medication errors from the nurses' viewpoints
Materials and Methods: This study was a descriptive-sectional-analytical one which was done in 2013. The study population consisted of 232 nursing staff of Abadan hospitals(Imam khomeini,Taleghani,Shahidbeheshti ,17shahrivar) which were covered by Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences,Oil Company and Social Security Organization ,respectively. Study instrument was a two part questionnaire including demographic - occupational information and causes of medication errors in 28 items in four fields (nurse, ward, nursing management and pharmaceutical causes).Content validity of questionnaire provided by review of related papers and experts'openion and required correction was performed.reliability of questionnaire was estimated 0.91 using Cronbach's alpha method.
Results: the most important causes of medication errors included shortage of nurses in propration to patient(%44),compression of work in ward(%36.2),fatigue due to over work(%35.8),illegible physician oder(%24.5),anxiety and stress due to work(%25),noise in ward(%22.4),nurse dissatisfaction of salary(%29.7) and similarity in medicine shape(%14.7) respectively.
Conclusion: Management causes such as nursing shortage, organizational factors such as compression of work in ward and some factors like nurses' fatigue had the most effect on occurance of medication errors among nurses. Thus, organizational processes reform and hospital organization to improve service quality and patient safety in order to resolve nurses' problems.
Dr Mohammad Arab, Seyed Masood Mousavi, Dr Aidin Arian Khesal, Dr Ali Akbarisari,
Volume 16, Issue 1 (4-2017)
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Background: in order to quality improvement, accreditation standards implemented with focus on the clinical and non clinical services. A nationwide intervention such as hospital accreditation can affect on measures related to the provision of high quality services. Indeed, such devices can be considered as effective tools in macroeconomic health sector policymaking. The main objective of current study was to investigate the effect of accreditation system on the key performance indicators of hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
Materials and Methods: The study was a semi-experimental and descriptive-analytical one which conducted longitudinal using an Interrupted Time Series Analysis approach. Data related to the key performance indicators including average long of stay, Caesarean percent, turnover rate, patient satisfaction percent, bed occupancy rate, self-ordered discharge from emergency room and net death rate) was accumulated through multiple visits to the hospitals during 2012-2014. STATA software was used for data analysis.
Results: The study results revealed that based on implementation of accreditation model, the average stay of patients in the hospitals cesarean section rate and turn-over intervals decreased, while the percentage of patient satisfaction and bed occupancy average increased. Moreover, self-ordered discharge from emergency room and average of net death rate indicator showed no change.
Conclusion In general, it can be concluded that the health system partially has achieved a part of their objectives means key performance indicators promotion as a result of hospital accreditation implementation in hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. In order to assess more accurate investigation and understanding the nature of the system effectiveness, analysis of different aspects of hospitals performance indicators and the nature of their changes in longer period seems to be helpful.
Ali Akbari Sari, Mahboubeh Bayat, Mohammad Arab, Mehdi Yaseri, Seyedeh Fatemeh Hosseini,
Volume 19, Issue 1 (4-2020)
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Background: equality in access of health care services is one of the most important goals of Health system .In this study, we provided a description of the distribution of Otorhinolaryngology Head & neck surgery specialists in the Provinces of Iran in 2017.
Materials & Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was conducted in 2017 to describe the distribution of Otorhinolaryngology Head & neck surgery specialists in the Provinces of Iran in 2017. Data were gathered through Ministry of Health and Statistical Center of Iran. Gini Coefficient, Concentration Curve ,Multiple Regression and Geographic Maps used by Microsoft R Version 3-6-0 for data analysis.
Results: The highest and lowest ratio of Otorhinolaryngology Head & neck surgery specialists per population in the year 2017 was reported in Tehran (2.31 per 100,000 populations) and Hormozgan (0.39 per 100,000 populations).
Conclusion: There was a considerable disparity between different regions of the country in terms of access to Otorhinolaryngology specialists.
Ali Akbarisari, Farhad Habibi, Bahman Khosravi, Pejman Hamouzadeh, Mani Yousefvand,
Volume 19, Issue 1 (4-2020)
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Background: Performance appraisal and quality evaluation of the services provided will achieve the organizational goals and improve the level of staff capability. In order to evaluate accurately and efficiently, we need to use standard indices, to compare the quality and quantity of work with standards, to know the current conditions and to solve its problems
Methods: This study is an applied study. This was done through a combined method of reviewing the texts and consensus of experts. Initially, the literature review and emergency evaluation indices were extracted, then the duplicate indices were removed and similar indices were merged, then weighted experts and questionnaires were compiled with the indices. Content validity, Cronbach's alpha coefficient and test-retest were used to assess the validity, internal consistency and reproducibility of the questionnaire, respectively. Data were analyzed using Excel and SPSS 20 software.
Finding: Final questionnaire with 105 questions in 8 areas including management and leadership (15); human resources (22); physical space and facilities (18); medicine and medical equipment (6); guidelines and policies (17); patient-centered (10); documentation of patient records (5); quality and time indices in the emergency department (12). The results showed that the final questionnaire was reliable (0.89) and repeatable (ICC = 0.98).
Conclusion: The Hospital Emergency Performance Assessment Questionnaire is a valid and reliable instrument and can be used to evaluate the performance of hospital emergency services.
Mahmoud Mirakbari, Maryam Ooshaksaraie, Maryam Daneshmand Mehr, Hossein Amouzad Khalili, Seyed Ali Majidi,
Volume 19, Issue 2 (8-2020)
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Introduction : A large number of hospitals and medical healthcare centers catch fire every year. Nowadays, one of the most significant challenges that hospital designers and health providers faced with is fire safety. This study conducted to determine a comprehensive model for fire safety in hospitals by reviewing related studies.
Method: This study was conducted using a comprehensive review to find a research paper published on fire in hospitals. Electronic databases such as PubMed Scopus google were searched using the proper search strategy.
Results: Overall, 14 studies were obtained. The findings were analyzed qualitatively through thematic synthesis and divided into some main themes: essential sections and divisions of hospitals in the field of fire, emergency exit patterns, materials and construction status, Flammable consumables materials in hospitals, and appropriate firefighting equipment.
Conclusion: The dangers of medical equipment and flammable material, the types of firefighting equipment in the hospital building, architectural safety issues regarding the degree of fire resistance of structures, roofs, doors, walls, and emergency exit stairs are crucial points To protect staff and patients in hospitals that should consider simultaneously.
