title: Iranian Expert Opinion about Necessary Criteria for Hospitals Management Performance Assessments.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Managers in the hospital should have enough managerial skill to be coordinated with the complex environment. Defining a competency framework assessment for hospital man-agement will help to establish core competencies for hospital managers. The aim of this study was to develop concrete and suitable performance assessment criteria using expert's view.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this qualitative study in total, 20 professionals participated in the interview and Fo¬cus Group Discussions (FGD). Two of informants were interviewed and 18 professionals par¬ticipants in three focus group discussions. Discussions and interviews were well planned, the FGD environments were suitable and after interviews completion the notes were checked with participant for completeness. Thematic analysis method was used for the analysis of qualitative data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings from 3 FGDs and 2 semi structured interviews done with 20 professionals were categorized accordance to themes. The findings were classified in 7 major and 41 sub themes. The major themes include competency related to planning, organization and staff per-formance management, leadership, information management, and clinical governance and per-formance indicators.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  All participants had hospital administration experience; so their explanation impor¬tant in identifying the criteria and developing hospital managers' performance assessment tool. In addition to professional perspectives and studies done in other countries, in order to design this kind of tools, it is necessary to adopt the obtained findings to the local hospital conditions.
authors.affiliation: Student Research Committee, Faculty of Health & Nutrition, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Elham
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dadgar
authors.affiliation: Tabriz Healthcare Management Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Janati
authors.affiliation: Department of Healthcare Administration, Management and Medical Information Faculty, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Jafar Sadegh
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Tabrizi
authors.affiliation: Medical Education Research Center, Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asghari-Jafarabadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Administration, Management and Medical Information faculty, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Omid
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Barati
keywords: Hospital manager; Iran; Performance assessment