[Implementation of standards in emergency departments in hospitals of Rasht]

ABSTRACT

In emergency departments [ED] like all other sectors in health system quality improvement is necessary. For achieving this goal implementing standards rules is important. This study is going to evaluate standard implementation in ED of Rasht [a city]. This is a descriptive and cross-sectional study. Samples were emergency departments of selected hospitals. Data was gathered with a checklist which was prepared by researcher and analyzed by descriptive statistics. 79.6% of evaluated EDs had appropriate situation. Mean achieved scores by hospitals were manpower 71.4%, physical structure 78.5%, facilities and equipments 81.05%, processes and activities 88.47% and personnel educations 54.28%. All EDs achieved unacceptable scores in manpower education. This is contrary to curvet M.O.H strategies for improving qualities of EDs. Special attention and resource allocation should be considered for improving the job training and personnel educations. In service education recruiters well trained personnel providing appropriate equipments and spaces and periodical evaluations are necessary strategies for quality improvements in EDs