Background. Commonly self-reported questions in population health surveys, such as "do you have a family physician?", represent one of the best-known sources of information about patients' attachment to family physicians. Is it possible to find a proxy for this information in administrative data? Objective. To identify the type of patient attachment to a family physician using administrative da...

background: health and security is one of component of human rights in society and the government to ensure it is up to society. from the perspective of the world health organization, family medicine is heart of global efforts to improve service quality, reduce costs, enhance effectiveness and equality of health care system. but without the participation of stakeholders and social change in beh...

Background: There has been a growing international evolution of the role and purpose of quality improvement in primary health care. The present study aimed to develop a quality model of the Family Physician program in Iran. Methods: In the qualitative part of these mixed-method studies, grounded theory was used according to the systematic method of Strauss and Corbin. Semi-structured interview...

Background: In recent years use of family physicians has been determined as a start point of health system reform to achieve more productive health services. In this study we aimed to assess the cost-efficiency of the implementation of this plan in Fars province, southern Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was done in 2007 in 18 provincial health centers as well as 22...

We evaluated the contents and characteristics of informed consent obtained by the primary care physician from a male patient with advanced cancer and his family, and clarified the influences of the informed consent on family function. This patient was diagnosed as having advanced cancer at the age of 46 years, underwent surgery/chemotherapy, but died after 4 months at the hospital. Semi-structu...