Evaluation of Intensive Care Unit in terms of standards of care in selected hospitals in Tehran

putting high standard of care in ICU units will decrease overall cost by reducing preventable deaths etiologies. The ultimate goal of the ICUs can be achieved by proper financial resource allocation, monitoring standards, fixing old or non standard physical structure of units, providing high quality equipments, and recruiting skilled nursing and medical staff. To study standard of care observance in Intensive Care Units of Shahid Beheshti Medical University hospitals. The data were collected by questionnaire in 6 criteria including management, human resources management, physical environment, improving quality and patient safety and patient care processes in ICUs. These Questionnaires were validated by health experts. Data were analyzed by spss software version 18. The total score was 1052 in all ICUs. The total score of the best ICU among all hospitals was 618 and the total score of the weakest ICU among all hospitals was 470. Among the 6 evaluating aspects, highest score was belonged to the management aspect and lowest one was related to patient care process. Total scores of intensive care units were lower than overall score; meanwhile, all hospitals were assessed as grade 1 in national accreditation system. It represents the gap between national and international standards in all aspects that should be fixed.