the patient’s satisfaction as an important indicator evaluates the process of care and is a valid method for standardization of hospital services. this cross-sectional descriptive study has done to assess patient satisfaction of hospital services (shahed medical affiliated hospitals). in this study, 500 patients selected randomly and their satisfaction was measured by a standardized questionnai...

background in medical practice, the dissatisfaction of patients about medical decisions made by doctors is often regarded as the fuse of doctor-patient conflict. however, a few studies have looked at why there are such dissatisfactions. objectives this experimental study aimed to explore the discrepancy between attitude and behavior within medical situations and its interaction with framing des...

a better understanding of factors influencing quality of medical service can pinpoint better strategies for quality assurance in medical services. this study aimed to identify factors affecting the quality of medical services provided by iranian physicians.exploratory in-depth individual interviews were conducted with sixty-four physicians working in various medical institutions in iran.individ...

it is important to focus on creating opportunities for patients' participation at all levels of health systems in order to promote their ability to improve patient safety and quality of services. the general aim of this study was to determine patient safety level in tehran university of medical sciences' (tums) general hospitals, tehran, iran from patients' perspective and to determine the cont...

patients with limbic encephalitis usually present with new onset mesial temporal lobe seizures, progressive memory disturbance, and a variety of other behavioral, emotional, and cognitive changes. autoimmune inflammation of the limbic gray matter structures of the human brain has recently been identified as major cause of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with interictal temporal epileptiform activ...

to investigate the effects of the two-pore-domain potassium (k2p) channel task-3 in a syngeneic murine model for malignant glioma. malignant or high-grade glioma (who grade iii and iv) are the most common and most aggressive primary brain tumors in adults. despite aggressive multimodal therapy, the outcome of patients with malignant glioma remains poor. however, recent phase i and ii trials hav...

background: hypertension is one of the major chronic disorders. hypertensive patients have various disease-related experiences, based on personal and social characteristics, life style and other effective factors. nurses face different situations during their activities process and presentation of these experiences obtained during working with patients can help them to improve the clinical acti...

objective: non-compliance is one of the major problems in treatment of patients with schizophrenia. it is also the most significant risk factor for relapse and re-hospitalization. previous studies showed that 25-70% of all patients with schizophrenia have negative attitudes to drugs. therefore, the present study aimed to identify the relationship between drug attitude and discharge and the rate...

background: the aim of the present study was to develop a scoring system for predicting 1-year major adverse cardiac events (mace), including mortality, target vessel or target lesion revascularization, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and non-fatal myocardial infarction after percutaneous coronary intervention (pci). methods: the data were extracted from a single center pci registry. the ...