Studying Level of Performing Accreditation of Nourishment Unit in Educational Medical Centers of Kermansham Province During Years 2012-2013 Publisher



Kazemi M¹ ; Mohammadi M¹ ; Shafapey F¹ ; Aabadi MSC² ; Akbarzadeh A¹ ; Baqney PJ³ ; Mirzaei S¹
Source: Research Journal of Medical Sciences Published:2015

Abstract

Accreditation means the systematic evaluation of centers presented in health care centers based on specific standards and these items are in order be ensured of performance. Present research was done aiming to study the level of executing standards of nourishment and food section accreditation standards in medical educational centers of Kermanshah in years 2012-2013. In this descriptive study, university hospitals of Kermanshah Province were selected in total accounting manner. The tool to gather data was accreditation standard chek lists of Iran hospitals based on accreditation standard handbook of Ministry of Health, Medication and Medical Education that was used as a measure to study the accreditation of hospitals. Questions of checklist included 16 basis. This questionnaire was distributed among evaluating experts in University Hospitals of Kermanshah Province during 2012. After gathering the chek lists, data were analysed by SOSS Sofware Version 21. Present research is the result of evaluating seven hospital centers in Kermanshah hospital based on 16 basis and help of hospitals food section accreditation standard evaluation handbook in Iran which is edited by Iran's Ministry of Health. In such manner, we can report results in form of redundancy tables considering obtained scores for each one of the basis. What's more, at the end various hospitals consideration toward following or not following the basis are evaluated and they are classified based on Freedman test from this point of view. © Medwell Journals, 2015.