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<Articles JournalTitle="Iranian Journal of Public Health">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Iranian Journal of Public Health</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2251-6085</Issn>
      <Volume>36</Volume>
      <Issue>3</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2007</Year>
        <Month>09</Month>
        <Day>15</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Correlation between Knowledge, Attitude and Performance of the Employees with Quality Asurance System Implementation by the Employers</title>
    <FirstPage>45</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>51</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName></FirstName>
        <LastName>H Dargahi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US"></affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName></FirstName>
        <LastName>M Rezaiian</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US"></affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2015</Year>
        <Month>10</Month>
        <Day>03</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Background: Quality assurance is implemented by the framework for the ISO 9001- 2000 " Quality Management Sys&#xAD;tem "and ISO 15189: 2003. QA system will be more efficient if every organization's employees are commitment to QA im&#xAD;plementation. This survey aimed to correlate between knowledge, attitude and performance of the employees with QA system implementation and its indicators observation in Tehran University of Medical Sciences Hospitals' Clinical Labo&#xAD;ratories in 2003-2005.


Methods: A Cross- sectional, descriptive analytical survey was accomplished with two types of questionnaires to col&#xAD;lect Employees' demographic information and determine knowledge, attitude and performance of the employees about QA system and its indicators observation in TUMS Hospitals Laboratories. Also, a checklist including 685 questions pub&#xAD;lished by WHO and ISO 15189: 2003 requirement series was made to monitor preanalytical, analytical, and postanalyti&#xAD;cal stage of fourteen TUMS Hospitals' Clinical Laboratories. The data was saved by spss software and ana&#xAD;lyzed by statistical method.


Results: The results showed that knowledge, attitude and performance of the employees for implementation and ob-serva&#xAD;tion of QA system and its indicators are more increased and positive with increased level of their academic de&#xAD;grees.


Conclusion: QA programs and indicators would be programmed if all of the employees participated to implement QA pro&#xAD;grams in these laboratories.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/2105</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/download/2105/2086</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
