Barriers to compliance with the codes of medical ethics at hospitals affiliated with Jahrom University of Medical Sciences in 2016

Background: medical ethics are responsible for modifying behaviors and setting standards of occupational behaviorsamong doctors and medical staff. knowing barrier of complianceofmedical ethic codes help health policy maker for planning to better patient care and their satisfaction . aim: to determine the barriers to compliance with the codes of medical ethics at hospitals affiliated with jahrom university of medical sciences in 2016. methods: this is a mixed method(quantitative-qualitative) study conducted on the health care staff at hospitals dependent to jahrom university of medical sciences in 2016. in the quantitative section,the stratified random sampling method was used to select 194 nurses and doctors from all the wards of hospitals dependent to jahrom university of medical sciences ). the quantitative information collection tool was a two-part questionnaire consisting of demographic items andquestions in 3 parts (management,environmental and individual-healthcare) . in the qualitative section,data collected by in-depth semi-structured interviews,recording voices and taking field notes. the sampling process was carried on until the data were saturated. results: as a results,the prevalence of barriers concluded management barriers (75.17%) environmental barriers (80.2%) and the individual-healthcare barriers (65.73%) above average. the most important environmental barriers to compliance with professional ethics was the crowdedness of wards (70.2%),insufficient healthcare staff (nurses and doctors) (58.9%) and inaccuracy due to heavy workload (52.6%). there were not significantly different in compliance with the codes of medical ethics in different areas at those hospitals,sex,working history,educational level and fields (p-value>0.05) finally,3 theme and 9 subthemes were obtained from qualitative part. conclusion: according to the research results,they should also eliminate most of barriers to medical ethics in order to implement standards of medical ethics in the best possible way.