Multidimensional indicator to measure quality in education

Multidimensional Approach to Frailty among Rural Older People: Applying the Tilburg Frailty Indicator

Introduction: Frailty is a common geriatric syndrome. Studies of frailty and old age have been able to help reduce its underlying causes and complication. Understanding the frailty and its associated factors in developing countries such as Iran, can help gather information on conditions of the elderly and better plan for this age population. Therefore, the present study was implemented to inves...

Psychometric Characteristics of Multidimensional Measure of Nurses’ Personal Resilience

Background and Aims: Nurses face too much stressors as work-rest cycle problems, overload responsibility, lack of vacation time and painful experiences of patients; therefore, resiliency can help them to appropriate and efficient cope with these stressors. But, there is no brief and practical scale to assess psychological resiliency among nurses in Iran. So, the aim of the present study was to ...

From a process of care to a measure: the development and testing of a quality indicator.

This paper outlines the steps in developing and implementing process measures of quality. Developing a process measure includes defining the purpose of and audiences for the measures, choosing the clinical area to evaluate, organizing the assessment team, choosing the component of the process to measure, writing the indicator specifications, performing preliminary tests of feasibility, reliabil...

High density Lipoprotein; What to Measure: Quality or Quantity?

Approaches of Iranian Medical Universities to Quality Management in Education

Introduction: Universities of medical sciences in Iran have recently employed different quality management approaches according to their own reasoning. They include accreditation, total quality management (TQM), suggestion system, ISO 9000, and productivity. This study aimed to identify chosen approaches in Iranian Medical universities and clarify the reasons of selection as well as practical m...