BACKGROUND With the rapid growth of technology and its improved accessibility globally, social media is gaining an increasingly important role in health care. Patients are frequently engaging with social media to access information, share content, and interact with others in online health communities. However, the use of social media as a stakeholder engagement strategy has been minimally explo...

BACKGROUND Patient-centred care has been advocated as a key component of high-quality patient care, yet its meanings and related actions have been difficult to ascertain. OBJECTIVE To map the use of different terms related to the process of giving patients a starring role in their own care and clarify the possible boundaries between terms that are often mixed. METHODS A literature search wa...

conclusions nursing managers should use proper strategies to improve nurses’ work engagement and decrease the incidence of incivility in hospitals and clinical environments. results the means of work engagement and workplace incivility scores were 3.59 ± 1.16 (average) and 2.68 ± 0.65 (low), respectively. a significant negative correlation was found between work engagement and workplace incivil...

work engagement is often considered as a critical factor in the organization's success and competitiveness. some of researchers claim that engagement is an “essential” challenge for contemporary organizations and argue that organizations can gain a competitive advantage through employee engagement. this study investigates the correlation among job resources such as job significant, job con...

work engagement literature has been dominated by quantitative research methods. this article aims to study work engagement antecedents using mixed-method sequential explanatory design. this design starts with the collection and analysis of quantitative data followed by the subsequent collection and analysis of qualitative data. the qualitative phase of the study was designed to incorporate the ...

Innate control of fungal infection requires the specific recognition of invariant fungal molecular structures by a variety of innate immune receptors, including Toll-like receptors. In addition to the role in inducing protective immune responses, Toll-like receptor engagement may paradoxically favor fungal infections, by inducing inflammatory pathology and impairing antifungal immunity. Althoug...

In this article we will briefly review how changes in brain and in cognitive and social functioning, across the spectrum from normal to pathological aging, can lead to decision-making impairments that increase abuse risk in many life domains (e.g., health care, social engagement, financial management). The review will specifically focus on emerging research identifying neural, cognitive, and so...

as part of a wider attempt to bestow the spirit of scholarly prose upon the research articles’ rhetorical structure, academic writers invariably take advantage of quantity metadiscourse markers to avoid prolixity and live up to the implicit and explicit maxims of quantity category as suggested in gricean cp and similar models.  in order to develop a clear understanding of quantity strategies di...

Due to the importance of employee engagement in the last decade and the significant role which plays in concept of organizational efficiency, identifying the factors influencing this concept can help any organization to grow and improve and also maintain and guarantee the survival of organizations in today’s competitive conditions. One of the factors influencing this concept is organizational r...