The Impact of Implementing Operational Crisis Management Plan in Educational Hospital

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Hospitals constitute the most important centers which accept people during disasters such as earthquakes and wars. Hospitals have sophisticated organizations due to their direct contact with human health and diseases; therefore the level of service quality in such organizations is of utmost importance. The critical conditions resulting from disasters pose great problems for hospitals. In order to enhance efficiency in critical conditions of disasters, hospitals need to have a pre-organized operational plan, lack of which will cause chaos and confusion at the time of crisis. Copyright © 2013, Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal; Licensee Kowsar Corp. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Dear Editor,