background and objectives: angiography remains as the gold standard for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases (cvd). the aim of this study was to assess the quality of angiography services in shahid madani hospital, tabriz, iran.   methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013 in shahid madani hospital. a sample of 203 cvd patients who had received angiography services was surveyed....

background and objectives: while social network analysis has left a remarkable practical impact in the healthcare field, the potential implication of this methodology in the primary health domain is poorly researched. hence, this study aimed to explore the use and usefulness social network analysis in the context of primary health care. methods: the health volunteers of imam ali health center i...

background and objectives: outsourcing healthcare and the associated services has proven as an effective strategy for enhancing hospital performance and improving quality of services. despite, the concept is relatively new in iran, calling for studies investigating different aspects of the issue and its potential benefits. thus, this study was conducted to explore the impact of outsourcing mana...

Web services are widely used thanks to their features of universal interoperability between software assets, platform independent and loose-coupled. Web services composition is one of the most challenging topics in service computing area. In this paper, an approach based on High Level Petri-Net model as dynamic configuration schema of web services composition is proposed to achieve self adaptat...

patient satisfaction of emergency medical services in abadan and khorramshahr hospitals, 2009 tahery n* , feraidoonimoghadam m , cheraghian b , khazni s received: 22 april, 2010 accepted: 27 july, 2010 abstract background & aims: patient satisfaction is a concept that today has gained high importance in medical care. some experts believe that it is impossible to improve business processes and h...