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Assessment of Laboratories Safety in Teaching Hospitals of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences
M. Z. Kiaei , A. Mahdavi , E. Hasanpoor , M. Nazari , Z. Abbasimani , M. Hajian , A. Salehi
Department of Health Services Administration, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , edrishassanpoor@yahoo.com
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Background: Without a doubt, one of the most important assets of any organization is its human resources. Hence, having a safe working environment is not only the satisfaction of human resources but also enhances the quality of services. Principles and necessity of laboratory safety lies in the fact that in a series of laboratory processes. Safety in the hospital environment, economic, and moral human being is very important. Materials and Methods: This is applied research and study of cross-sectional. The research community, including all parts of the hospital laboratories (four hospitals) has been. Checklist of questions to the mix (University of California, Los Angeles and Reference Laboratory of Iran) were selected and studied in laboratory safety situation in the territory of four excellent, good, average and poor categories. Results: Results of the study in four hospitals in the overall safety of the study showed did well (79.5%). Only the areas of fire safety (32.3%) was poor in general were evaluated. Rate of safety in A hospital was estimated excellent (93.13%) that is because of new laboratory in the hospital. Also, the C and B hospitals were well and only D hospital was average (69.4%). Conclusion: The safety is main factor in risk management of hospital, and clinical laboratory play the role in improvement and quality of services. Result of study show that hospital and laboratory design is very important and should be based on international standards.
Keywords: Laboratory, Quality, Safety
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: General
Received: 2013/06/19 | Accepted: 2017/08/23 | Published: 2017/08/23



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