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A Survey of Hospital Disaster Management in Medical Science Universities of Tehran-2005

Thursday, 10 July 2008: 1:15 PM
Mohsen Hojat, MSc , Nursing- Med Surge, Jahrom Medical Science University, Jahrom, Iran

Learning Objective 1: WHATS THE DISASTER PREPAREDNESS IN IRAN

Learning Objective 2: HOW IS DISASTER PREPAREDNESS IN WORLD

INTRODUCTION: Every day our world is affected by natural and man made event that can be develop to crisis and cause for little and crucial revolution in human life. Geographical situation, width and different calamity are causes that vulnerable our country as tenth country in the world. Tehran city sustain many disaster from found to now. In fact, health and medical department are active parts of disaster management. They are close to national health plan. Hospital as the most importance of medical institute mast prepare for fast response and correct management to disaster before it occur. According to content, a research designed for ((ASSESSING OF HOSPITAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN MEDICAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITIES OF TEHRAN)).

Method& MATERIAL: it is a descriptive, cross _ sectional study on 13 general and educational Tehran universities hospitals (Iran – Tehran – shahidbeheshti) that have more than 100 capacity (set) . for data gathering used of research make's checklist that consist of 210 question, that evaluate hospitals in every 10 object by 6 domain as :logistic ,personnel, spaces, protocols and charts. For checklist validity used of content validity and its reliability with kappa test was (.80) in good level.

Results: Research units' preparedness at admission (38/32) percent, transfer and evacuation (39/63) percent evaluated as week domain. Emergency (48/20) percent , traffic(52/33), communication(52/14) percent , personnel(43/80) percent and management (48/17) percent evaluated in mid domain but security (68/97) percent ,education(66/95)and backup (61/19) were in good level ,admission ward grade was less than other and backup unit got more grade between other .consequently all hospitals got (51/94) percent degree that show all research units are in mid domain in disaster preparedness. Whilst, Tehran medical university's hospital got (60) percent degree that was more than Iran (53) percent and shahidbehesti medical university(42/24) percent.

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