introduction: the risk of inappropriate decision making would be minimized if the managers are timely provided with accurate and adequate information. obviously, hospital information system (his) plays an important role in today's rapidly changing organizations. this study was performed to assess the viewpoints of managers and network operators about the effect of his on the performance and pro...

introduction: undesirable exploitation of natural resources, resource shortage and increased hospital costs has resulted in increase in the hospital expenditure over revenue or made costs scale heavier than the income scale. the present research has been done by the aim of studying the effect of combining hospital wards on current expenses of bou ali medical & teaching center by the means of in...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: medical records department (mrd) is an important source for evaluating and planning of care services. the main goal of this research was performance evaluation of medical records department with balanced scorecard (bsc) approach in a hospital of isfahan, iran. methods: this research was a descriptive, cross s...

extract today home health care is implementing in many countries. in iran, because of increasing population growth and hospital investments, home health care is not avoidable. home health care not only causes decreasing length of hospitalization and rapid offloading of hospital's beds for the use of other patients, but also presenting direct health services in home based on individual need...

background and objectives: public-private partnership (ppp) is a well-established model to alleviate the risk of investment in health domain. while the model is widely applied in the developed countries, the adoption of the model in many developing countries is hampered partly by the lack of knowledge on dimensions and requirements of its local implementation. the present study, thus, aimed to ...

background : due to specific conditions in hospitals such as accumulation, existence of disable persons and patients, different and complex equipment, chemical and infectious substances, flammable materials and ionized radiations, safety precautions is essential to prevent the occurrence of incidents such as fire, electric shock hazard and exposure to excessive levels in hospitals. this was the...

conclusions according to the results, there was a direct correlation between access to physical space in ed and waiting time. in addition, improving the physical access did not necessarily result in shorter waiting time. therefore, to improve triage process, improvement of waiting time indices, and modifying forms of work process in ed are recommended. results the correlation between the waitin...

the doctor-patient relationship (dpr) is a complex concept in the medical sociology in which patients voluntarily approach a doctor and thus become a part of a contract in which they tends to abide with the doctor’s guidance. globally, the dpr has changed drastically over the years owing to the commercialization and privatization of the health sector. furthermore, the dynamics of the dpr has sh...

meningitis is one of the most important causes of infant mortality and its early and proper diagnosis is of great importance, but there are currently no laboratory facilities optimized and fast in detection of meningitis pathogens. the current standard of bacterial meningitis diagnosis is microscopic examination and cerebrospinal fluid (csf) culture. this research aimed at isolating the most co...