Prioritizing Medication Management Criteria of National Hospital Accreditation Standards Using FDANP Model
Fatemeh Izadpanah *
Laboratory Research Center of Food and Drug Control, IRFDA, MOHME, Tehran, Iran.
Maryam Shiehmorteza
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Amirissa Rahimpour
Azad University, Sciences and Researches Branch, Tehran, Iran.
Mandana Moradi *
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Introduction: Accreditation is an evaluating tool of health care systems especially in hospitals: Iran’s Ministry of Health emphasizes its importance. We attempted this descriptive study to classify medication management criteria of hospital accreditation standards using a hybrid approach of fuzzy DEMATEL based on ANP (FDANP).
Methods: This study included all Iran’s hospitals. Nine medication management criteria and their sub-criteria were evaluated. AHP questionnaire was used for data collection.
Results: The following were demonstrated to be effective: The standards of safe storage of drugs and medical equipment, and providing practical procedure for reporting and controlling medication errors. The other factors were affected by them: Continuous monitoring of drugs and medical equipment utilization was the most affected and not independent factors/standards.
Conclusion: Focus should be made on effective standards and their related measures, not on standards affected by other factors/standards.
Keywords: Accreditation standards, medication management, hospitals.