Background and Objectives: A blood distribution network orchestrates distribution of safe blood products to hospitals. Blood shortage and blood wastage are two important factors which may affect efficiency of blood distribution network. Service delivery time is another factor that refers to the time interval between blood request by a hospital and transfusing it to the patient....

establishing of total quality management in any organization including emergency medical services need to an appropriate tool to help developing, implementing and evaluating of quality programs. the objective of this study was to develop a valid and reliable tool for self assessing enabler criteria of iran ems centers according to european foundation for quality management (efqm) model.the stud...

Aim: Increasing the productivity of emergency services is only possible with documentation and analysis data on provided. In this study, we aimed to evaluate demographic characteristics patients admitted unit using a computer-based patient registry system. Materials Methods: 33,886 outpatients between 01.09.2017 31.08.2019 were retrospectively analyzed. Demographic patients, main complaints, ti...

BACKGROUND Older people resident in care homes have a limited life expectancy and approximately two-thirds have limited mental capacity. Despite initiatives to reduce unplanned hospital admissions for this population, little is known about the involvement of emergency services in supporting residents in these settings. METHODS This paper reports on a longitudinal study that tracked the involv...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to analyze patterns of mental health-related service utilization before and after hospitalization for attempting suicide. METHODS This retrospective cohort study included all persons 15 years or older with a clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia (N=195) or depression (N=330) hospitalized in Montreal, Quebec, from April 2003 to December 2004 for attempting...

background: work environment dictates physical, social and mental tensions each of which affect the staff’s health. likewise, pre-hospital emergency care staff, due to the special nature of their job, are exposed to the tensions of emergency situations which can affect their health. therefore, this study was conducted to scrutinize the relationship between the job burnout and mental health in p...