Evaluation of Hospital's Emergency Departments According to User Requirements

Requirements engineering framework for automated emergency departments of hospitals

In Emergency departments of hospitals, users have to take critical decisions related to patients and resources within short time. The increased demand of quality resources at critical time in emergency department is a major challenge to provide quick medical assistance. To automate and improve emergency healthcare process, autonomic computing framework is used in both intra and inter-organizati...

Workplace Violence: A Regional Survey in Iranian Hospitals’ Emergency Departments

Background and Objectives: Violence toward healthcare workers has emerged as an important health problem. This type of violence has the potential to severely influence healthcare workers, patients, and the community. This study aimed to explore the prevalence of violence in emergency departments, and to identify associated risk fac‌tors using a sample of emergency department healthcare workers ...

Evaluation of Antibiotic Alternatives Used in Orthopedic Departments of 2 Hospitals According to Rational Use of Antibiotics

Methods: Data of patients diagnosed with infection between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2015 in orthopedics and traumatology department of 2 different hospitals were analyzed. Patients diagnosed with malignancy or who were discharged from other departments were excluded. A standard form was used to collect demographic data, culture antibiogram results, details of infectious agent, source of...

Methamphetamine Intoxication in Emergency Departments of Hospitals in Iran: Implications for Treatment

Emergency Management: from User Requirements to a Flexible P2P Architecture

The most effective way to design an emergency management system matching user needs is to perform a UserCentered Design; it relies on continuous interactions with end-users in order to understand better and better how organizations are arranged during emergencies, which data are exchanged and which steps are performed by organizations to face disastrous events. In this paper we (i) illustrate t...