study of the hospital managers awareness of fire accident management in the hospitals affliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Since health care centres do not have developed plans to control fire accidents, the manager's knowledge, skills and attitude can play an important role to increase the hospital efficiency to fight fires. This is a desciptive, cross-sectional study which was carried out in educational and non-educational hospitals affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. The study lasted six months and the data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire. To analyze data, K2 Pearson and Spearman tests were used. The findings revealed a mean of 27.63 +/- 7.36 out of sixty. According to the results, the hospital manager's knowledge of crisis management was weak