introduction: the healthcare sector is one of the areas affected by information technology (it). due to the importance of it in hospitals and factors affecting its use, the present study was conducted to investigate the human factors affecting the use of it among managers of university hospitals in shiraz, iran. methods: this applied and analytic study was conducted in 2014 in 7 university hosp...

introduction: european foundation for quality management has designed the efqm model to determine the rate of organization development and excellence and construct ways to achieve organizational excellence. this model is used to compare the current situation of each organization with an ideal organization. the aim of this study was to determine the performance self-assessment scores in selected...

background: hospital health is release to all acts for making healthy environment in hospital to prevent the prevalence of factors that cause disease out of the hospitals. at present, hospital infections are the main result of these factors and one of the most important reasons of patients' mortality. this matter directly or indirectly causes considerable increasing of hospital costs and making...

introduction: to assess efficiency as a relative concept, the difference between real and expected values must be determined by comparing the productivity of economic units of industry and the efficiency in potential production conditions. as economic units, hospitals need to utilize efficiency analysis in order to make optimal use of their available resources. therefore, the present study comp...

background informed consent is an important part of the patients’ rights and hospitals are assigned to obtain informed consent before any diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. obtaining an informed consent enables patients to accept or reject their care or treatments and prevent future contentions among patients and medical staff.   methods this survey was carried out during 2011-2. we assessed...

there is possibility of microbial contamination of any single-dose vials (sdvs), multiple-dose vials (mdvs) and admixtures (adxs) during the preparation and injection to the patients that could be resulted in bloodstream infection. the goal of this study was to investigate the microbial contamination of mdvs and sdvs after multiple use and adxs prepared by nursing staff in the treatment room ve...