Introduction and objective: Compliance with accreditation standards in intensive care unit (ICU) will result in reduction of preventable mortality and costs. Standard and the importance of its 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 University of Medical Science.
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 science which was derived from standards of joint commission international (JCI). Data analysis was carried out by curves and descriptive statistics.
Findings: out of 139 scores evaluated in 8 aspects for ICU, the highest and lowest scores were 109 and 64, respectively. Also, out of 121 scores evaluated in 8 aspects for cardiac care unit (CCU), the highest and lowest scores were 89.5 and 74, respectively. Accreditation standards were more complied in CCU as compared with ICU.
Conclusion: in spite of gaining grade one in evaluation of 2015, the sum of mean scores on ICUs in all 4 educational-therapeutic centers was obtained 57.9% which is low in terms of total score of standards, the difference between the evaluations of ministry of health and international standards on ICU shows that some measures have to be taken to resolve the problems
