Introduction and objectives: Providing high quality care and fulfillment of the requirements of patients are among the main duties of hospitals. On the other hand, compliance with national standards in intensive care units can reduce the costs and preventable mortalities. Standards and the importance of their application in ICU have been neglected in Iran. The aim of this study is to determine the distance to compliance with accreditation standards of ICUs in educational-therapeutic centers on Urmia medical science university.
Method: This study was conducted in 4 educational-therapeutic centers by descriptive cross sectional method. The data were collected by accreditation standard evaluation checklist of ministry of health and medical education which was derived from standards of joint commission international (JCI). Data analysis was carried out by curves and descriptive statistics.
Findings: Out of 40 scores for intensive care units (ICU), the highest and lowest scores were obtained as 35 and 16, respectively. Also, out of 34 scores assigned to cardiac care units (CCU), the highest score was 23 while the lowest score was 19. National standards were more complied in CCU as compared with ICU.
Conclusion: In spite of gaining grade one degree in evaluation of 2015, the sum of mean scores in continuous patient care and evaluation in ICUs of all 4 educational-therapeutic centers was 58.67% which is medium in terms of total score of standards. The difference between the results and those of ICU international standards indicates that some measures have to be taken to resolve the problems.
