background: informing plays a prominent role in attracting medical tourists. the enjoyment of proper medical information systems is one of the most important tools for the attraction of medical tourists. iran's ability in designing and implementing information networks has remained largely unknown. the current study aimed to explore information needs for designing a medical tourism website. met...

introduction: quantitative analysis of medical records is effectiveness factors in hospital policies, assessment of treatment team performance, and improve executive activities in hospital and they are the principle tool for medical audit. despite the importance of evaluation and high cost and time, it was not intentioned enough. this paper review the result of quantitative analysis of medical ...

introduction: mortality data are a cornerstone of epidemiological research and health plan. unfortunately they dose not completed coincident to international standards; so due to important of issue and had not any research for precision and accuracy of death certification data in this region, this study was done in death certification data in inpatient kashan shahid beheshti hospital. methods: ...

background: knowledge management is an organizational activity in which all individuals at different levels need to be involved. this research tried to evaluate the effective parameters (organizational strategies, information technology, human resources management, and cross-organizational communication) on implementing knowledge management in private hospitals in the province of isfahan, iran....

background: nowadays hospitals have to cope with global changes. they are thus forced to be equipped with learning and learning hospitals. this research was performed to design a model for establishing learning organization in iranian public hospitals. methods: this qualitative, comparative, cross-sectional study was conducted in 2009-2010. first, available models of learning organization in ge...

introduction: the rate of access to health care is known as the main index of community health. teleconsultation is defined as using comminuting equipments to connect physicians and patients. this study aimed to survey the readiness of specialized hospitals to implement teleconsultation, focusing on manpower readiness, as well as communicational equipments and procedures. methods: the present d...

OBJECTIVE The economic benefits of reducing emergency department (ED) crowding are potentially substantial as they may decrease hospital length of stay. Hospital administrators and public officials may therefore be motivated to implement crowding protocols. We sought to identify a potential cost of ED crowding by evaluating the contribution of excess ED length of stay (LOS) to overall hospital ...

BACKGROUND In many different countries the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) is used to assess the safety culture in hospitals. Accordingly, the questionnaire has been translated into Dutch for application in the Netherlands. The aim of this study was to examine the underlying dimensions and psychometric properties of the questionnaire in Dutch hospital settings, and to compare ...

While a dairy cooperative provided the bylaws, managing a cooperative of rural hospitals has been a learn-as-you-go experience. This article presents the management principles that have been learned over the last 13 years. Its experience suggests that developing and managing partnerships requires behaviors different from those typically associated with the management of individual organizations.

This paper describes the reconnaissance function for the siting of deployable field hospitals. It reports two levels of reconnaissance, theatre/operational and tactical. The paper describes the factors to be considered when conducting the reconnaissance and the format of the reconnaissance report.