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Evaluation of Emergency-Management-Information System among Medical Universities-Affiliated Hospitals in Tehran during 2006
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Moghaddasi H *   , Hoseini A , Farshid monjami , Taghipour Aghdam Kashki MA |
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| Background: Emergency wards are the key points of the hospitals which admit 75% of hospital patients and quick, efficient, and effective care of them can therefore, rescue more people. So the management of this department is very important. Respecting the information is one of the main sources of managing emergency department, which its management is attained by quick and on-time access of emergency department managers to by Emergency Management Information System (EMIS). Thus in this research the situation of emergency management information system of hospitals affiliated to medical universities of Tehran has been studied. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study, 12 hospitals affiliated to medical universities of Tehran were selected by random stratified sampling method. Data were gathered through observation by check-list tool and they were analyzed by descriptive statistics. Results: Findings of this research indicated that in all the selected hospitals, emergency department information systems have related to all health information systems. Just in 11.1% of emergency management information systems of studied hospitals, data of emergency situations management have gathered wherein at 33.43% of them data processing have done and reports have given only in 39.55% of these systems. In all the studied hospitals, emergency department managers in all the emergency management information systems were the users of the system, whereas only 8.3% of directors of admission departments were system users. In these systems, there were only 29.78% information indicators which users need. Also all of these systems were manual. Although in all of them emergency department information systems and telephone were used for data gathering, medical records, admission, statistics, index notebooks, but Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Geographic Information System (GIS), wireless phone and computer network were not used in them. None of these systems were applying data process tools. They also were using from emergency medical records and telephone to distribute information. There was no standard related to emergency management information system in these studied hospitals. Conclusion: Our results indicated that data gathering, processing and information distributing were not performed completely. In these systems most of data elements were considered whilst they were not useful in internal functions and thus, external functions of emergency department were not considered. Also system users have less knowledge about structure and its process which needs a comprehensive introduction and planning to conduct the system’s function in a more better way. Keywords: Emergency department , Emergency department information system , Emergency management information system |
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| Keywords: Emergency department, Emergency department information system, Emergency management information system |
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Type of Study: Original |
Subject:
Medicine
Received: 2017 | Accepted: 2017 | Published: 2017
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