Promoting patients’ rights through hospital accreditation

Promoting Women’s Rights through Sharia in Northern Nigeria

Hospital accreditation in Latin America.

1 Institute for Technical Cooperation in Health, Potomac, Maryland, United States of America. Send correspondence to: Humberto M. Novaes, INTECH, Inc., 12 Pasture Brook Court, Potomac, Maryland 20854-2954, United States of America; telephone: (301) 610-9620; fax: (301) 610-9621; e-mail: [email protected] 2 Case Western Reserve University, Medical School, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America...

Hospital Accreditation Surveyors' Evaluation Criteria in Iran

Background and Aim: Hospital accreditation is an external evaluation strategy used to improve the quality and effectiveness of services. Accreditation surveyors are among the important factors affecting the validity of accreditation results. Since the effectiveness of an accreditation system depends on its surveyors, the aim of this study is to identify the evaluation criteria of hospital accre...

Patients and physicians awareness of patients’ rights and its implementation at Beheshti hospital in Isfahan

Introduction. Patient's satisfaction is considered as one of the hospital effectiveness indicators which has an important role in hospital productivity. Respecting patients' rights is necessary for gaining their satisfaction. The objective of this survey was to investigate the patients and physicians' awareness about patients’ rights and its implementation in Beheshti hospital in 2003. Method...

Promoting mental wellbeing through activity in a mental health hospital

Occupational therapists hold, at the core of their philosophy, the belief that activity can be used to work towards an improved quality of life, despite any disability (Yerxa 1983). According to Coia and Joice (1989), the ability to use activity as a treatment medium is unique to occupational therapists and vital in recovery in mental health. The recreational therapy hall offered the only widel...