From boardroom to bedside: how to define and measure hospital quality.

Bringing the bedside to the boardroom, and the boardroom to the bedside.

On leadership from the bedside to the boardroom.

E leanor Roosevelt is someone we both greatly admire; many of her quotes, including the one above (Roosevelt, 1960, p. 29) are truly inspiring. She was a respected public figure. Her claim to fame included being the longest-serving First Lady of the United States (1933–1945) and her continued political activism afterward by serving as an American delegate to the newly formed United Nations (UN)...

Reliability and Validity of Bedside Version of Persian WAB (P-WAB-1)

Introduction: In this study, we reported the reliability and validity of Bedside version of Persian WAB (P-WAB-1) adapted from Western Aphasia Battery (WAB-R)1,2. P-WAB-1 is a clinical linguistic measuring tool to determine severity and type of aphasia in brain damaged patients based on Aphasia Quotient (AQ) as a functional measure. For the purposes of a quick clinical screening of aphasia in...

Define and Conquer: How Semantics Foster Progress; A Response to Recent Commentaries

Need to define and measure "learning outcomes" in medical education

Introduction: Learning outcomes are defined as what students get at the end of the training period. Outcome-based education approach focusing on determining, defining and assessing learning outcomes is one important tool in the improvement of the quality of learning in medical education in the most developed countries. According to importance of this approach, this study intends to introduce th...