Assessment of Emergency Department with Emergency Medicine Specialists regard to Ministry of Health standards in Tehran

Emergency Departments (ED) are the heart of hospitals and they have unique and essential position in health care systems. In ED, the actions should be fast, high quality and effective. So we decided to evaluate the ED in which the Emergency Medicine attending and residents are working and compare the ED with Ministry of Health standards. In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 7 governmental hospitals in Tehran which had Emergency Medicine residents and specialists system assesed and compared with standards of Ministry of Health.. The SPSS software was used for analysis. Frequency tables and bar chart were achieved by this software. Considering the 19 main factors, 91.85% of standards were protected. In one of the hospitals the whole standards were protected and the lower rate of protection was 75 per cent. Three parameters (clerk WC, medical documents and emergency drugs) were perfect in all of hospitals but isolation room and physical architecture gained lower rate. (71.4 & 80.71 per cent respectively) With regard to Ministry of Health standards, it seems the conditions of EDs are favorable but these standards are not perfect and should be revised. Also application of Emergency Medicine specialty in ED might result in improvement of standards.