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A comprehensive environmental scanning and strategic analysis of Iranian Public Hospitals: a prospective approach
BMC Research Notes, Vol.13(1), pp.1-7
26/03/2020
PMCID: PMC7098121
PMID: 32216824
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Abstract
Objectives: This study was conducted to provide a strategic direction to public hospitals in Iran via environmental scanning in order to equip hospitals to plan and perform proactively and adapt with the everchanging environment.
Results: A mixed method study including in-depth interview and survey were used to determine influential environmental factors based on PESTLE (political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental) and Douglas West framework to determine the effectiveness and feasibility of factors. Issues identified at micro environmental level were over prescription, inequality in distribution of healthcare services and high demands for luxurious health services. Issues identified at the macro environmental level were related to changes in disease patterns, inappropriate hospital budgeting, economic sanctions, government corruption and healthcare centralization. In order to tackle the issues identified, it is paramount to enhance bed distribution management, improve strategic policies for a more equitable payment system, and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of services by implementing a strategic inventory control. Furthermore, the considerable impact of economic sanctions on financial resources of Iranian hospitals should not be ignored.
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- Title
- A comprehensive environmental scanning and strategic analysis of Iranian Public Hospitals: a prospective approach
- Creators
- Kimia Pourmohammadi - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesPeivand Bastani - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesPayam Shojaei - Shiraz UniversityNahid Hatam - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesAsiyeh Salehi - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- BMC Research Notes, Vol.13(1), pp.1-7
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- Grant note
- 95-01-07-13769 / Shiraz Transplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (IR)
- Identifiers
- 991012925036702368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
- Academic Unit
- School of Health and Human Sciences; Nursing; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article