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Mehdi Jahangiri, Fariba Sorkhi, Zahra Rasooli-Emadi, Fahaimeh Izadi. Compliance Study of Safe Environment Standards in Selected Hospitals of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran. HSR 2016; 12 (1) :27-31
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1- Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Corresponding Author: Mehdi Jahangiri, Email: jahangiri_m@sums.ac.ir
2- Student, Department of Occupational Health, Student Research Committee, School of Public Health Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
2- Student, Department of Occupational Health, Student Research Committee, School of Public Health Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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Background: Due to specific conditions in hospitals such as accumulation, existence of disable persons and patients, different and complex equipment, chemical and infectious substances, flammable materials and ionized radiations, safety precautions is essential to prevent the occurrence of incidents such as fire, electric shock hazard and exposure to excessive levels in hospitals. This was the compliance study of safe environment standards in the selected hospitals of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 6 hospitals in Shiraz city. To assess the safety status of hospitals, the safe environment standards (domain D) from of patient safety friendly hospital initiative published by the world health organization (WHO) was used. Study checklists were completed through field study and answers were scored and analyzed.Findings: The average compliance degrees of critical and core standards in all studied hospitals were 100 and 78.3%, respectively. In subdomain of core standards, the average compliance degrees were 76.66% and 89.57%, respectively.Conclusion: The results showed that all the studied hospitals were at level 2 of compliance with patient safety standards for safe environment domain (domain D). For full complicate with the standards, it is necessary to do the advised actions for improving the safety of hospitals, especially in the field of core standards (subdomain of D1).
Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
education health and promotion
Received: 2020/07/16 | Accepted: 2016/04/15 | Published: 2016/04/15
Received: 2020/07/16 | Accepted: 2016/04/15 | Published: 2016/04/15
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