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A Akbari Sari, L Doshmangir,
Volume 8, Issue 2 (6-2009)
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Background: A variety of methods are available for identifying and measuring adverse events and medical errors in healthcare. The aim of this study is to review these methods with their strengths and weaknesses.
Methods: Electronic databases including Medline, Embase, Google Scholar and Iran Medex were searched to identify and summaries relevant studies.
Results: Different methods have been used to identify adverse events and their nature, causes and consequences. Record review seems to be the most common and the best method for measuring the rate and consequences of adverse events. However, this method is relatively expensive and time consuming and still underestimates the rate of adverse events. It is also not suitable for identifying the underlying causes of adverse events. The other method commonly used is reporting system including critical incident reporting system. This method is relatively cheap and more suitable for exploring the underlying causes of adverse events, but it is not suitable for identifying the rate of adverse events as it may underestimate many adverse events. Other methods include critical incident technique, interview, questionnaire, direct observation and review of claims and none of them are suitable for identifying the rate of adverse events but they might be useful for other purposes including assessment of the causes of adverse events.
Conclusion: Several methods can be used for study of adverse events. No single method can serve all purposes. Each method has some strengths and weaknesses. Using a combination of methods is more suitable, but this approach is more expensive and time consuming. Which combination of methods are more appropriate, depends on several factors including the aim of the study and resources available.
Mohammad Nekoei Moghadam, Sajad Delavari, Mina Salajeghe, Mohammadhossein Ghorbani,
Volume 9, Issue 1 (9-2010)
Abstract
Background: One of the necessities of hospital administrations is that the top and middle managers should be familiar with leadership styles and conflict management strategies completely and select a right managerial method. Through this, they can actively play a significant role in improving effectiveness and efficiency of hospital performance. The main objective of this research is surveying the relationship between Fidler's LPC score (as a sign for leadership style) and conflict management strategies (avoidance oriented, solution oriented, control oriented).
Materials and Methods: For surveying leadership styles Fiddler's Least Preferred Coworker questionnaire and for surveying conflict management strategies, another questionnaire was used. The reliability of these two was 0.90 and 0.88 respectively. The survey population was consisted of the high and middle managers of Kerman's educational hospitals (81), and a sample 67 individuals was selected for survey.
Results: The result showed that respondents mostly use communication oriented style and employed conflict management strategies are avoidance, solution and control respectively. Also it was observed that there is a positive and significant relation between LPC score and avoidance and solution strategies (r= 0.512 and 0.298 respectively). But there is a negative and significant relation between LPC score and control oriented strategy (r= -0.474).
Conclusion: According to the findings it is suggested that, the reasons of using avoidance strategy should be surveyed and try to encourage people to state their inconsistent ideas and converse freely. This could help organization to improve its performance. But communication oriented style is suitable and its maintenance should be taken into consideration.
Mahmoud Nekuei Moghaddam, Azadeh Taghavi Rad, Saeedeh Hakimipour, Milad Shafiei, Gholamreza Goudarzi,
Volume 9, Issue 3 (2-2011)
Abstract
Background: The world is changing continually and organizations as the subsystems of the world should be adapted with these changes by helping to develope of creativity and innovation.This study to evaluate the relationships between conflict management styles and creativity of staff in training hospitals in Kerman province.
Materials & Methods:This is a cross-sectional study from aspect of descriptive -analytical. For gathering data, the standard questionnaires of conflict management for managers and creativity for staff applied. The participants in the study were all disciplinary managers from selected hospitals in one group and all disciplinary staff of selected hospitals in another group.Data analysis used in SPSS software.
Results:The results showed that there is a significant and opposite assosiation between enforcing styles and negotiating styles between managers (P<0/05, r= -0/187) and creativity of staff (P<0/05 , r= -0/155) . Meanwhile, there is a significant relation between marital status and educated staff and their creativity. This research reveales that avoiding styles applied among men is less than women.
Conclusion: To develop creativity of staff and managers should decrease using of enforcing and negotiating styles to solve the conflicts in hospitals.
E Zeraatkar , H Rahmani , M Ghazi Asgar , J Saeid Pour , S Azami , A Aryankhesal , M Pakdaman ,
Volume 12, Issue 4 (3-2014)
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Background: Hospital waste is one of the environmental problems .Ignoring the proper management of these wastes can lead to outbreak of diseases and epidemics which threat the public health and rise high costs as a result. This study is aimed to assess the level of staff awareness and hospital performance concerning waste management in selected hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2010.
Materials & Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study. The data were collected by distributing a multipartite Likert scale questionnaire among 351 individuals which had been used to measure hospital awareness and performance. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS software. Among Descriptive tests Chi-Square test was used to determine the correlation of qualitative variables and Pearson correlation coefficient was used for quantitative variables. The significance level was considered at 0.05.
Results: Significant differences had been seen among different professions` level of awareness .There were no significant difference among different hospitals ` average awareness level although there were significant statistical differences among each hospital`s performance level (p ≤ 0.001).
Conclusion: Due to relatively poor status of hospital`s waste management and hospital staff `s performance , better planning for proper management and wastes `excretion is needed to achieve sustainable development, public health protection and the environmental preservation. Staff Training and their performance monitoring and improving is one of the most important factors of hospital waste management plan success.
H Dargahi, F Forouzanfar, M Bakhtiari, Z Rajabnejad,
Volume 13, Issue 1 (6-2014)
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Background: Nowadays Medical devices have an important role in diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation of patients and also in medical education. However, in the recent years usage and maintenance of these devices have not been in a good situation in developing and even some developed countries. Therefore fundamental changes and reprocessing has begun among management and usability of medical devices in these countries. This research is aimed to determine the management situation with the approach of usability evaluation in order to change and reprocess the management system among Tehran University of Medical Sciences general teaching hospitals at 2012-2013.
Materials& Methods: This study was a descriptive and cross sectional research among eight general teaching hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 1391. The research tool was a self-made check list consisting of 38 questions about medical devices management condition and Nielsen questionnaire about usability of these devices which were completed by head nurses of CCU, ICU and OR departments with the help of medical devices supervisor in 56 departments of these hospitals. Data were collected and analyzed by SPSS software.
Results: We found that medical device management and the usability of these devices were not in a good situation in these hospitals as well as usage of electronic information technology.
Conclusion: Regarding the results of this research specially in the usability of medical devices, we recommend that users and supervisors of medical devices should be trained about usability criteria and evaluation procedures of these criteria, and the relationship between management styles and applications of quality improvement and pay attention to reprocessing of medical devices management among hospitals administrators and healthcare policy makers to select and purchase the best devices.
E Zarei , F Farzianpour , B Pouragha , P Abbasi Borogeni , M Mohammadzadeh ,
Volume 13, Issue 2 (8-2014)
Abstract
Background: Identification of development needs is a first important step in a systematic management development effort. This study aimed at assessing management development needs from the viewpoint of middle managers of hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Material and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The population study was 227 of middle managers employed in 16 hospitals. Data were collected using a 42-items questionnaire which its reliability and validity was confirmed. Data were analyzed using main components analysis in software SPSS17. Results: designing and innovation indicator among managerial roles, human skills indicators in managerial skills, psychological abilities among managerial talents, social trust in personal characteristics, comprehensive thinking indicator in philosophic mindedness and leadership in managerial knowledge components were the most important from the perspective of the middle managers Conclusion: managers play the specific managerial roles in order to perform their managerial tasks. They need to develop administrative skills, abilities, knowledge, personality and philosophic mindedness to play the best managerial roles.
S J Tabibi, S Heidari , A A Nasiri-Pour , M Hosseinishokouh , A Ameryoun , F Mashayekhi ,
Volume 13, Issue 2 (8-2014)
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Background:Hospital is the most important health care services provider center.Undoubtedly, properand effective management performance can be very important. This study aimed at assessing professional and non-professional managers’ performance among selected hospitals in Tehran.
Materials and Methods: In thisdescriptive study the population was staffs of ten selected hospitals in Tehran. With the intention of performing the study, a 41-items questionnaire was used which confirmed its validity by experts and its reliability by Cronbach alpha(=90).After data entry in SPSS software,frequency distribution tables, diagrams and central tendency and dispersion were used. With the intention of measure probable correlation Contingency Correlation Coefficient - C was utilized.
Results:The comparison betweenprofessional managers’ responses with non-professional ones revealed an incremental trendfrom “seldom” to “always” in all domains of management functions (including planning, organizing, coordinating and control)and Contingency Correlation Coefficient - C indicated statisticallysignificant relation between domains and types of managers (professional and non-professional)P = 0.003, P = 0.006, P = 0.001, P0.0001 respectively.
Conclusion:Managers’ professional education is inevitable for hospital managing duties.
Farshad Faghisolouk , Ali Valinejadi, Roghaye Ershad Sarabi , Pouran Raeissi,
Volume 13, Issue 3 (12-2014)
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Background: Hospital as core of health and care system requires an effective leadership style and suitable strategy for organizational differences and conflict’ solving. Main goal of this study is to survey of relationship between leadership style and strategy of conflict management among chief executive officers of Urmia hospitals.
Materials and Methods: This analytical-descriptive cross-sectional study was implemented in Urmia hospitals in 2013. Study population of the research includes thirty top managers in ten hospitals of Urmia. Data gathered through three questionnaires (personal and job characteristic leadership style with method of Fiedler LPC and conflict management). Data analyzed through SPSS software, mainly by Chi 2, Kruskal–Wallis and Spearman's Rho tests.
Results: Results showed that Leadership style had significant statistical relationship with average of managers work experience (p=0.040). Also age and strategy of control had significant statistical relationship (p=0.01). Leadership styles and strategies of conflict management weren’t significantly with other descriptive variables such as (position, level of education, marriage situation, work experience, managerial studies and second job). Leadership styles and strategy of conflict management weren’t significant relationship, finally.
Conclusion: Since that the determination of leadership style and methods of dealing with conflict management in hospitals is important, it is recommended that ever done comprehensive research on the effects of other factors such as organizational culture, social culture, character on leadership style and conflict management.
Mahdi Farzadkia, Somayeh Golbaz, Haniye Sadat Sajadi,
Volume 14, Issue 1 (6-2015)
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Background: There are various departments in hospital that produce hazardous, infectious, pathological and radioactive wastes. Utilizing proper methods of waste management is of high priority in order to prevent from releasing these wastes to environment. This study aimed to evaluate waste management efficiency in Karaj hospitals.
Material & Methods: This cross - sectional study was conducted in Karaj during 2011-2013. All hospitals of Karaj had been selected as statistical population of this study (n=8) by census. The data had been collected by separating and weighting produced hospital wastes for 4 month (during one week at each month) and filling related checklists of health ministry. Collected Data had been analyzed using SPSS software.
Results: The daily capita of waste was 4.1 kg per active bed, 5.6 kg per occupied bed and 9.4 kg per patient. The overall percentage score of present status of hospital waste management was assessed 88% and in 12% which indicate moderate and weak levels respectively. Hospital waste management had been evaluated weak in terms of collection, transportation and personnel but seen from the viewpoint in the separation and temporary storage, it was assessed moderate. However, in terms of disposal, assessment of hospital waste management showed it is in a desirable status.
Conclusion: The present status of hospital waste management was far beyond the expectations among studies hospitals. Thus, developing an operational plan and monitoring its implementation is highly recommended to. Given the main weakness of hospital waste management was related to production, collection, separation, and transportation, taking these areas consideration is of high priority.
Mohamad Fahiminia, Elham Taherian, Abolfazl Mohammadbeigi,
Volume 14, Issue 1 (6-2015)
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Background: Hospitals have been known as main water consumers .Moreover , the amount of their produced wastewater and contamination is much more than domestic subscribers. Hospital waste management has recently emerged as an issue of major concerns but wastewater produced has not received sufficient attention. As there is a separate source of drinking water from that of sanitary usage in hospitals of Qom, surveying the consumption of water and the amount of produced wastewater will provide a lot of information in order to estimate amount of water requirement and wastewater produced in the hospitals
Materials and Methods: The amount of water consumption in hospitals had been collected from the year of 2008 to 2013. Collected data and conversion ratio of water to wastewater had been used for estimating the amount of wastewater. The data was analyzed by SPSS 19 software. Pearson correlation test was used to determine the relationships between variables. By identifying strengths and weaknesses of current system , appropriate interventions for better management of water and sewage systems were presented.
Results: The average of water consumption was found to be 655.7 liter per day per bed and 8.6 liters per square meter of substructure area among all eight hospitals surveyed.There was a statistically meaningful relationship between consumed water in hospitals and substructure area (p<0.05).The average quantity of wastewater produced was estimated as 567.6 liter per day per bed. The main method of wastewater disposal is discharge in an absorbing well.
Conclusion: In order to improve the current situation of mentioned hospitals, reconstructing water and wastewater facilities , using wastewater treatment packages and connecting waste water of hospitals to systems of wastewater collection of city seems inevitable.
Zahra Vazife, Farshad Tavakoli,
Volume 14, Issue 2 (8-2015)
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Background: Knowledge management plays an imperative role in the success of organizations. Many factors such as organizational culture affected on knowledge management. Therefore, this study aims at investigating the association between dimensions of organizational culture with knowledge management.
Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive analytical study was conducted in 2013. Three hundred twenty two employees of three hospitals related to the Zahedan University of Medical Sciences selected through a stratified-randomized sampling. Standard instrument of organizational culture and a self-designed questionnaire of knowledge management were used for data collection. Collected data was analyzed using SPSS version 18 by descriptively and inferential statistics methods.
Results: study results indicated that there was a positive and significant association between organizational culture and knowledge management. Also, results on other objectives pointed out a positive and significant association among dimensions of organizational culture (clan, market, adhocracy) and knowledge management. There was a negative and significant relation between organizational bureaucratic culture and knowledge management.
Conclusion: Organizational culture is one of the most important tools of a successful implementation of knowledge management in organizations. Modifications of organizational culture in health care teaching hospitals of Zahedan University of medical sciences should be set towards establishing knowledge management considering organizational tribe culture and organizational adhocracy culture more than other cultures.
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Volume 14, Issue 4 (1-2016)
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Background: Quality management as an organizational strategy helps enhance hospital efficiency, effectiveness and productivity. This study aimed to examine the impact of quality management on employees’ job satisfaction at Respiratory Intensive Care unit, Labafijejad Hospital.
Materials and Methods: A participatory action research was used for the intervention in 2013. A quality improvement team was established and operational processes were improved using a quality management model. The quality improvement team identified and standardized working processes, identified quality goals for the processes and improved them until achieved quality goals. Employees’ job satisfaction data was collected before and after the intervention.
Results: The quality management model implementation improved employees’ job satisfaction at the Respiratory Intensive Care unit. Employees’ job satisfaction was increased from 56.6 percent in 2013 to 68.3 percent in 2014. Integrating employees’ needs in quality improvement activities helps sustain the benefits of quality management. As a result, employees’ moral and satisfaction increase.
Conclusions: Implementing an appropriate quality management model appropriately in a supportive environment helps enhance employees’ job satisfaction and morale. Managers' and employees' commitment and involvement in quality improvement activities are required for successful quality management implementation.
Mr. Ayoub Pazhouhan,
Volume 14, Issue 4 (1-2016)
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Background: Today, intellectual and social capitals as intangible and knowledge-based assets are one of the main factors of organizations’ success. On the other hand, knowledge management is a process which helps organizations engenders wealth from knowledge, intellectual and social capitals. This study aimed to determine the role of intellectual and social capitals in predicting knowledge management.
Materials and Methods: The present research is a descriptive-analytical study carried out in the spring 2015. The target population consisted of all staff of Imam Ali hospital in which selected 155 employees using the quota non-random sampling. The data were collected using three standard questionnaires of Bontis’ intellectual capital (42 items) including human, structural, and relational dimensions, Nahapiet and Goshal’s social capital (17 items) including structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions, and Lawson’ knowledge management (24 items). The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation, employing IBM SPSS version 22 software and structural equation technique of AMOS.
Result: 71% of study participants had bachelor's degree and 40% aged less than 30 years old. The results indicated that the dimensions of social and intellectual capitals were significantly and positively correlated with knowledge management. The results of path analysis revealed the intellectual and social capitals predicted knowledge management with the positive changes 0.79 and 0.89 respectively. As a final point, the structural dimension of intellectual capital and the relational dimension of social capital had the highest direct impact on knowledge management.
Conclusions: Given the important role of intellectual and social capitals in the application of strategies of knowledge management, hospital officials are able to facilitate hospitals increase added value and improve performance and excellence in presenting clinical services by investing more in knowledge-based assets.
Seyed Hesam Seyedin, Ruholah Zaboli, Zeynab Malmoon, Fatemeh Rajabifard ,
Volume 15, Issue 2 (6-2016)
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Background: Today, due to the diversity of organizational structure and culture, the diversity is one of the basic principle in crisis management.Crisis management consists of six components including flexibility, inclusion, trust, risk perception, adaptability and equity.This study aimed at investigating the managers' perception about components of crisis management in hospitals affiliated to Tehran and Iran University of Medical Sciences.
Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional one. A questionnaire was used to collect data using five likert scale. Validity and reliability of questionnaire assessed by content validity and Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Sixty six questionnaire were collected. Data analysis was performed by SPSS software using ANOVA and independent t-test.
Results: The highest and the lowest level of managers' perception were inclusion and equity(3.19 ± 0.51) and adaptability(2.73 ± 0.75), respectively. There was a statistical significant difference between crisis management components with gender and job type. The highest level of importance was regarded to inclusion and mutual trust between personnel and managers, and the lowest level was related to flexibility in hospital crisis management .
Conclusion: Employees in diverse positions have different definitions of adaptability in crisis. It is necessary to perform further research and educate hospital manager’s duties.
Dr Bakhtiar Ostadi, Ms Asrin Navidi,
Volume 15, Issue 2 (6-2016)
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Background: Since, energy consumption per square meter in hospitals is much higher than other types of service institutions; in this study, some actions performed toward optimizing energy consumption improvement projects based on the definition and prioritization in hospital.
Materials and Methods: The necessity of optimizing energy consumption in hospitals were described according to some scales including the average consumption and cost of water, electricity and gas for bed days and active bed, and these indices calculated in the case. Then, improvement actions were identified using energy audit, interviews with hospital experts and conducted studies in hospitals. Next, projects with high importance were extracted regarding to impact on energy consumption indices, expert opinion, aggregation, feasibility, and limitations such as prerequisite, synchronicity and post-requisite. Finally, specific criteria were identified in three dimensions, i.e., factors affecting the level of energy consumption, trying to execute project and risk and the projects were prioritized using questionnaire and FAHP.
Results: The study results revealed that energy consumption was higher than the world standards in the studied hospital; this confirmed the necessity of optimizing energy consumption and using energy management systems. The results of prioritization also showed the first four priorities.
Conclusion: It seems necessary to save energy consumption through improvement projects implementation in the hospitals. Regarding the number and resources limitation, hospitals can choose to implement some low risk and payback period projects based on existing priority and budget annually.
Sohyla Reshadat, Alireza Zangeneh, Shahram Saeidi, Elham Sufi, Nader Rjabi-Gilan, Ramin Ghasemi,
Volume 15, Issue 2 (6-2016)
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Background: Improper distribution of medical care creates access inequality to the services in developing countries. This study aimed at investigating inequalities in access to medical facilities in Kermanshah's Metropolitan Area.
Materials and Methods: The study was an applied and descriptive – analytical one. Due to the spatiotemporal nature of current research, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were used. Research data was included hospital addresses and demographic data from statistical blocks of Kermanshah based on Iran’s 2011 census report.
Results: The study results represented that spatial distribution of hospitals was concerned on a random pattern in metropolitan of Kermanshah and there was not a special mechanism in hospitals' spatial distribution. In total, Kermanshah city has 13 hospitals with 2342 hospital bed till 2014 which the most of them were related to general hospitals. In existing situation, the statistics revealed that only 48.51% of population has covered by hospitals and 51.49% of households have no standard access. The number of existing hospitals cannot response to the citizen's needs.In this study; current location of the most hospitals was not compatible with scientific criteria; standards and usage requirement.
Conclusion: It is concluded that all residents had not equal access to hospitals; and also their distribution was not proportionate with population distribution and households. There is inequality in access to medical facilities focused on hospitals of Kermanshah's Metropolitan Area.
Keywords: Inequalities, Management, Health, Accessibility, Hospital, Geographical Information System
Mahnaz Afshari , Dr. Alimohammad Mosadeghrad , Dr. Mohammad Arab ,
Volume 16, Issue 1 (4-2017)
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Background: The health system of Iran is suffering from resources shortage. The health insurance companies (payers) do not confirm all hospitals’ claims (bills) and as a result do not reimburse them completely. Decreasing the amount of these deductions helps healthcare managers to use their resources efficiently. This study aimed to examine the impact of a quality management model on reducing the amount of healthcare insurance deductions at operating theatre department of Valiasr hospital in 2014-2015.
Materials and Methods: A participatory action research was used for the intervention. A quality improvement team was established and using the ten-step quality management model improved operational processes at operating theatre department. Related data were collected before and after the intervention to determine the effect of quality management system on deductions.
Results: The average deduction per patient at the beginning of the study was 339572 Rials. Illegible and uncompleted patient’s medical records, using wrong codes of surgery and anesthetics in documents and miscalculation were the main reasons of deductions. The reasons for deductions were identified and appropriate solutions were applied to decrease the amount of deductions at operating theatre department. The average deduction per patient at the end of study was 262818 Rials. The amount of deductions has decreased from 6.9 % to 3.8 %. The quality management system helped reduce the amount of deductions by 44.9%.
Conclusion: Implementing an appropriate quality management model appropriately helps reduce deductions in hospitals effectively
Mohammad Mehdi Ghaemi, Hamid Moghaddasi, Alireza Kazemi,
Volume 16, Issue 1 (4-2017)
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Background: Despite the fact that only one-third of chest pains occur due to heart diseases, still physicians have tendency to admit most of these patients to reduce risk of negligence and its consequences.Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) enable physicians to distinguish better cardiac from non-cardiac chest pain. This study reviewed articles which focused on this issue.
Materials and Methods: Google scholar and PubMed database were targeted for search. Out of ninety primary matching articles based on the title, abstract and keywords, 28 full texts were relevant which were included in this study.
Results: Included articles were classified into two categories such as managing hospital resources and increasing the accuracy of diagnosis. Study results in the first categoryshowed decrease in both reception and referral time up to 30% and length of hospital stay up to 26% using CDSS. In the second category, the highest reported accuracy of diagnosis was 97% and the maximum sensitivity and specificity were 100% and 89.43% respectively. Even though, the results of a study revealed that the accuracy of decision support system in diagnosing cardiac chest pain was better than the compared cardiologists.
Conclusion: Considering the role of CDSS in managing hospital resources and improving accuracy of diagnosing cardiac chest pain, it is suggested that emergency wards and cardiac screening centers equipped by these systems.
Dr Hojjat Rahmani, Ghasem Rajabi Vasokolaee , Dr Jalal Saeidpour, Dr Mehdi Rezaei , Dr Somayeh Niakan, Bahman Khosravi ,
Volume 16, Issue 4 (2-2018)
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Background: Considering the key role of human resource management in health care organizations, assessing human resources and its pathology are essential. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate human resources pathology in Imam Khomeini Hospital complex in Tehran.
Materials and Methods: The present study was conducted using descriptive-analytical method in 2016. In this research, 342 employees of Imam Khomeini Hospital complex were selected. The data were collected using a standard three-dimension questionnaire, then, descriptive (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation) and analytical statistics (Pearson Correlation Coefficient) were used to data analysis.
Results: Study results revealed that the highest and the lowest mean and standard deviation were obtained for the variable of motivation and job satisfaction (3.51 ± 1.02) and improvement methods (2.81 ± 0.84), respectively. Among all studied variables, behavioral (3.29) and contextual (2.91) factors scored the highest and lowest points respectively. Correlation between structural, behavioral and contextual with demographics revealed a statistically significant association with sex.
Conclusion: According to study findings, considering the importance and role in providing the desired services, human resource managers should pay special attention to identify all organizational factors, especially organizational culture, motivation and job satisfaction, employee training, job security and customer orientation.
Dr Hossein Dargahi, Seddigheh Asadi , Dr Batoul Ahmadi, Dr Mahmoud Mahmoudi ,
Volume 17, Issue 1 (5-2018)
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Background: Today, the organizations have found their need to a strategic planning for valuation of knowledge management. One of the most important elements for knowledge management is organizational creativity and innovation. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the relationship between knowledge management and organizational creativity and innovation among Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was a descriptive-analytical one which conducted in 120 employees of teaching hospital in 2015-2016. The study questionnaire included three questionnaires as Probst’s knowledge management questionnaire, researcher made questionnaire for organizational creativity, Patchen’s organizational innovation questionnaire and demographic information. SPSS software version 21 utilized to data analysis using descriptive statistics, independent t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient at the significant level of less than 0.05.
Results: The study results revealed that there was a relationship between knowledge management and creativity (r=0.661, P<0.001) and organizational innovation (r=0.325, P<0.001). Also, there was a significant association between organizational creativity with innovation (P=0.02).
Conclusion: Development of knowledge management could increase the rate of organizational creativity and innovation. Therefore, the policymakers, leaders and managers of hospitals should establish the knowledge management system to improve the organizational creativity and innovation, and finally promote the efficiency and effectiveness of hospital practice.
