Sayed Jamaledin Tabibi; Amir Ashkan Nasiripour; Mahmood Reza Gohari; Mohammad Mahboubi
Volume 10, Issue 7 , December 2014, , Pages 955-963
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Introduction: Hospital is an organization that is responsible for care and treatment of all people. The requirement of accountability in hospitals is increasingly considered. The purpose of this research is to identify accountability in the teaching hospitals of the country. Methods: The Descriptive- ...
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Introduction: Hospital is an organization that is responsible for care and treatment of all people. The requirement of accountability in hospitals is increasingly considered. The purpose of this research is to identify accountability in the teaching hospitals of the country. Methods: The Descriptive- correlation study was performed on 1034 case hospital staff and patients in major Iran’s hospitals. Data Collection was done with a valid and reliable self made questionnaire. The questionnaire had eight dimensions (ethical, political, cultural, operational, structural, financial, informational and legal) and 31 questions. Data analysis was performed by using Pearson Correlation test and t-test by SPSS16. Results: Results has been shown the most frequent among the female respondents population (n=564) 54.55%. The highest and lowest frequencies of respondents were aged 30-20 years (42.45%) and less than 20 years (6.67). The highest and lowest accountability scores among hospitals was respectively (4 ±0.66) and (3.06±0.63) that this difference was statistically significant. Results showed the influence of political dimension in accountability selected educational hospitals had higher average mean than other dimensions. The strongest relationship was shown between the ethical and information (r=0.523, Pvalue<0.001). Finally the overall situation of accountability in hospitals had a moderate to high mean (3.25 ±0.63). Conclusion: According to the state's accountability in the teaching hospital, this was lower than desirable in some aspects, planning for the restructuring by starting to respond in a hospital emergency department is required. Key words: Hospitals, Teaching; Accountability; Iran
Sayed Jamale Din Tabibi; Amir Ashkan Nasiri Pour; Sara Aghababa; Nasim Nabi Pour Jafar Abad
Volume 8, Issue 4 , September and October 2011
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Introduction: Nowadays, knowledge management is one of the most effective factors in competitive advantages and success among organizations. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the principles of knowledge management in teaching hospitals of Iran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This applied ...
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Introduction: Nowadays, knowledge management is one of the most effective factors in competitive advantages and success among organizations. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the principles of knowledge management in teaching hospitals of Iran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This applied descriptive cross-sectional study included 30 senior managers in ten teaching hospitals associated with Iran University of Medical Sciences during 2009. In order to gather data, a five-point Likert questionnaire was designed by the researchers. The questionnaire had a reliability of 0.874 (Cronbach’s alpha) and its validity was approved by the experts. Finally, the data was analyzed using descriptive statistics indices (average, median, and variance). Results: The findings indicated that knowledge transfer (3.64), knowledge assessment (3.84), knowledge application (3.41), knowledge sharing (3.34), and finally knowledge creation (3.19) had the highest average scores. At the end, the score of knowledge management was calculated as 3.4. Conclusion: Considering the applied Likert scale, knowledge management scored above average and could be regarded as desirable. Moreover, according to the results, more attention should be paid to knowledge creation and knowledge sharing. Keywords: Knowledge Management; Teaching Hospitals; Universities.
