background: in recent decades, patient safety has become a high priority health system issue, due to the high potential of occurring adverse events in health facilities. objectives: this study was aimed to survey patient safety culture in 2 iranian educational hospitals. materials and methods: in a descriptive, cross-sectional survey, a hospital survey on patient safety culture, was used in two...

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background and objectives: medical tourism tourism is emerging as a fast growing healthcare industry with the potential to open a new economic opportunity for developing countries. iran has been the treatment destination of many medical tourists from middle eastern countries for many years, yet this field of services remains underdeveloped. the best judges for the challenges facing development ...

background and objectives: discharge against medical advice (dama) is a significant healthcare problem posing negative impact on effectiveness of patient care and costs of the health system. in order to address this problem, first the potential influencing factor should be identifies. this study followed two major objectives: first, to evaluate the prevalence and potential causes of dama, and s...

background: despite the positive outcomes reported with cardiac rehabilitation (cr), its impacts have been reported to be different from a region or country to another, which may be due to the different contents of rehabilitation programs. objectives: to investigate the effect of cr on cardiovascular risk factors. patients and methods: this is a retrospective cohort study on the data from imam ...

introduction: medical student should be trained in medical ethics and one of the most essential issues in this field is taking informed consents. in this research, we compared the effect of effectiveness of teaching methods on students’ ability in taking informed consent from patients. methods: this semi-experimental study was carried out on fifty eight subjects from the 4th-year students of sh...

conclusions the use of diclofenac suppository combined with iv pca results in reduced narcotic usage and a higher level of patient satisfaction compared to the use of iv acetaminophen combined with iv pca. results the patients’ characteristics were the same in both study groups. the patients’ satisfaction levels were higher among those who received diclofenac when compared with the acetaminophe...

providing an informed consent has an important role in promotion of medical treatments and reduction of judiciary litigations in this process. today with cultural changes and wide propagation that is usually charming, the request for aesthetic surgery has an increasing trend. these problems with complexity of cosmetic surgeries lead to deeper differences of information between plastic surgeons ...

background: caring is the core of nursing and holistic high-quality care is considered as one of the main concerns of nursing managers. evaluation by main care recipients and assessment of their satisfaction with different levels of care is a way to determine and improve the quality of nursing care. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the quality of nurses’ caring be...

background patient satisfaction is one of the vital attributes to consider when evaluating the impact of accreditation systems. this study aimed to explore the impact of the national accreditation system in lebanon on patient satisfaction.   methods an explanatory cross-sectional study of six hospitals in lebanon. patient satisfaction was measured using the servqual tool assessing five dimensio...