Communication as a strategy for hospital accreditation maintenance

Communication Skills Training for Physicians as a Strategy for Enhancing Patients’ Satisfaction: A Model for Continuing Education

Introduction. The quality of doctor-patient relationship has a significant impact on patient satisfaction and medical outcomes. Communication skills training is not formally included in medical education curriculum in Iran and as a result physicians can not communicate properly with their patients and need to receive training in this regard. In this study a communication skills training program...

American Self-Identification: A Strategy of Maintenance

Neural Transplantation as a Strategy for Recovery of CNS Functions

Transplants of neural tissue have been used for nearly 100 years in order to clarify the mechanisms that underlie development and regeneration of the nervous system. With reports from Sweden and Mexico that autografts of adrenal medulla produce at least transient and perhaps dramatic improve­ment in patients severly disabled by Parkinson's disease, the techniques of neural transplantation have ...

The main indicators for Iranian hospital ethical accreditation

Introduction: The application of organizational ethics in hospitalsis one of the novel ways to improve medical ethics. Nowadaysachieving efficient and sufficient ethical hospital indicators seemsto be inevitable. In this connection, the present study aims todetermine the best indicators in hospital accreditation.Methods: 69 indicators in 11 fields to evaluate hospital ethicswere achieved throug...

Maintenance management decision model for preventive maintenance strategy on production equipment

In industries, Preventive Maintenance (PM) is not a new practice to minimise the sudden breakdown of production machine. PM will be performed at predetermine intervals to provide a balance between failure cost and component utilisation (aging). However, most of PM interval is based on experience or original equipment manufacturer (OEM) recommendations. Consequently, the benefits from PM are not...