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Comparison of intensive care units Structural Standards
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Gholamhosein Falahinia   , Ali Zareian , Khodayar Oshvandi , Afshin Farhanchi , Abbas Moghimbigi |
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| Abstract Aims a : Intensive care units are one of the most sensitive parts of each hospital codification of appropriate structural standards and its measurement improve the quality of services in those units. So this study had been done with the aim of “determining structural conditions of intensive care units” Methods : : This cross-sectional study had been designed for measuring structural standards of intensive care units in three areas of human force physical conditions and medical equipment in educational hospitals of Hamadan and comparing it with the last existing standards according to international guidelines and principles and accreditation standards of Iranian hospitals and it had been performed from April to September of 2011. Data were collected via completing assessing forms with direct observance of the researcher and they had been analyzed by using statistical tests, ANOVAs (variance analysis) and Spearman in SPSS (17) software. Results : All the three units of the study achieved less than 50% score of structural standards among the total 843 score that Besat intensive care unit 48% ( the mean score 406) ، Ghaem intensive care unit 45% ( the mean score 376 ) and Milad intensive care unit had 41% ( the mean score 346 ) of the standards. The most percent of the standard score was related to human force with (%58) and the least one was related to physical conditions and facilities with (%38). Conclusion : In intensive care units of the study, achieved scores in structural domination was less than appropriate standard level. Therefore it had been suggested that the executives consider achieving global standards specially promotion of structural standards that is guarantor of quality promotion and optimization performance of intensive care units. |
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Received: 2019/03/3 | Published: 2013/01/15
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