introduction: one of the basic problems of hospital management is lack of an effective fiscal system, which causes in loose cost control. meanwhile, accounting techniques and economic analyses may help the managers to decide better in planning programs and investing fields. then, it’s time to have a better estimate of health care services costs in our competitive situation for the hospitals, in...

background: avoidable mortality (am) is one of the most important health indicators (hi) and represents the quality of care in a hospital.objective: this study measured the efficacy of a training program for a hospital healthcare staff to reduce am.methods: this epidemiological study on community intervention analyzed time-series data on hi by semesters from 2008 to 2015. the pre-intervention p...

background: health care organizations are of high importance due to their significant responsibility in prevention and care. job dissatisfaction among health care staff would result in emotional disconnection, indifference, and decreased quality of health services. the present study thus aimed to evaluate job satisfaction among health workers. methods: this study was a cross-sectional analysis ...

results according to the results there is a significant statistical difference between average numbers of models before and after educational intervention (p < 0.001). also hba1c and fbs after educational intervention were lower (p < 0001). conclusions applying the hbm model proved is very effective in developing an educational program for diabetics, to control their blood sugar. besides such p...

background: preconceptional care is very effective to ensure mothers and babies health during and after pregnancy. the clinics and health center personnel are able to offer preconceptional care especially to the risky cases. learning about the experiences of health center personnel in such cases is useful for others to find solutions for the same problems which may come up. this study tends to ...

background: health inequalitymonitoring especially in health care financing field is very important. hence, this study tends to assess the inequality in household&apos;s capacity to pay and out-of-pocket health carepaymentsin tehran metropolis. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed in 2013.thestudy population was selected by stratified cluster sampling, and they constitute the typic...

background according to the reports of world health organization (who) and centers for disease control and prevention, the prevalence of chronic hepatitis b infection in iran has decreased from 2-7% in 2001 to 1.3-0.8% in children aged 2-14 years. in 2010 the institute of medicine recommended more comprehensive screening by primary care physicians (pcps) for evaluation, vaccination, and managem...

Family physicians' scope of work is exceptionally broad, particularly with increasing rurality. Provisions for Medicare bonus payment specified in the health care reform bill (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) used a narrow definition of primary care that inadvertently offers family physicians disincentives to delivering comprehensive primary care.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There has been a significant reduction in the number of family physicians who provide pregnancy care. This study examines the effects of an educational intervention at a university-based family practice residency. The intervention was designed to increase the number of graduates who include prenatal care or deliveries in their practices. METHODS The curriculum in pre...

BACKGROUND Primary care is the main source of health care in many health systems, including the UK National Health Service (NHS), but few objective data exist for the volume and nature of primary care activity. With rising concerns that NHS primary care workload has increased substantially, we aimed to assess the direct clinical workload of general practitioners (GPs) and practice nurses in pri...