an investigation of the admission units of educational hospitals affiliated to shiraz university of medieal seiences and health services

intreduction hospitals as main health care prouders have always received great aftention. and in hospitals , special attention ust be paid to the admission unit and its management and organization. the unit plays important role in the evaluation of the hospital. methods and materials it is a descriptive study in which nine inpatients admission units and six outpatient admission units were examined. the data were collected loy questionnaires, echecklists and interviws with the managers of the admission units. results the findings revealed that admission units did not have nough educated personnel. the admission and emergency units did not have appropriate eqwipment. these units did not carry out some of their major tasks and did not play any role in discharging and transferring the patients. conclusion and discussion the results puts emphasis on the improver nent of the admission units based on the accepted standars in terms of their location , man power, eqnipment and also faciliating and accelerating the process of admission of the patients.