Patient safety practices, targeting organisational changes for improving patient safety, are implemented worldwide but their costs are rarely evaluated. This paper provides a review of the methods used in economic evaluation of such practices. International medical and economics databases were searched for peer-reviewed publications on economic evaluations of patient safety between 2000 and 201...

OBJECTIVE To review and assess the quality of economic evaluation studies on injury prevention measures. DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCES Electronic databases searched included Medline (Pubmed), EMBASE, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and Safetylit. INCLUSION CRITERIA Empirical studies published in English in international peer-reviewed journals in the period 1998-2009. The subject of the...

The purpose of this research was to identify and rank the factors influencing the design of the native model for assessing the effectiveness of the advertisement. Firstly, according to the research literature, the criteria and sub-criteria influencing the effectiveness of advertising have been extracted, then the Delphi triple stages were used that the panel included 20 professors and marketing...

Nowadays the quality of life is one of the factors that have special standing in the context of urban planning studies. This factor became significant due to the increasing importance of quality of life in the monitoring of public policy and its role as an efficient tool in the management and planning. Urban life quality is usually measured through the surveying and evaluation of subjective per...