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...

background: the existing models of information technology in health sciences have full scope of betterment and extension. the high demand pressures, public expectations, advanced platforms all collectively contribute towards hospital environment, which has to be kept in kind while designing of advanced technological ecosystem for information technology. moreover, for the smooth conduct and oper...

background: due to various climatic conditions in different parts of iran, presenting of various kinds of human myiasis is expected. despite of a few case series, most papers related to myiasis are case reports originated from various parts of iran. this study discusses on different clinical features of myiasis in iran and description of one case from tehran as a representative to nosocomial in...

background: mental disorders in patients with chronic medical disorders are associated with, performance degradation, poor quality of life, lack of cooperation with treatment and inappropriate use of medical services, and increased costs. the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of mental disorders in the general population referring to an educational medical hospital in rash...

background: every year, eating, exercise, work, and travel patterns change during the holidays and these behavioral changes at a larger scale may cause death due to cardiovascular disease (cvd). considering the importance of cvd, the present study was conducted for the first time in iran to determine the differences in the ratio of deaths due to cvd on holidays and working days. materials and m...

exposure to blood borne pathogens is considered as a common occupational hazard among health care workers all around the world. the aim of the current study was to investigate the factors associated with needle stick and sharp injuries among health care workers of an academic hospital. the current cross-sectional study of health care workers a teaching hospital designed based on a census sampli...

in today’s advanced world resulting from the improvement of technology, societies tend to encounter a large number of problems and accidents. as we know, university’s security personnel are classified as shift workers and are exposed to health disturbing factors. the aim of this study was investigation of shift work disorders among security personnel of the hospitals affiliated to shiraz univer...

awareness and preparedness for prevention of crisis plays an important role in minimizing its impacts and fatalities. this study suggests how to enhance the efficiency of crisis management through applying a resilience engineering (re) approach. the aim of this study was to design a questionnaire to assess crisis management based on re approach. in this descriptive survey, four principles of re...

in recent years noise has been well known as an environmental pollution. particularly its effects will be more serious in some environments including hospitals which patients need a calm and peaceful condition. this study aims to evaluate hospitals noise pollution level. this study is a cross-sectional study. noise measurements were made in all hospital wards in a workday and weekend from 8 to ...

background wastewater effluent in hospitals has been increasing during the recent decades due to developments in medical services and products. objectives this study aimed to investigate the qualitative parameters of effluent wastewater in hospitals affiliated to babol university of medical sciences (bums). materials and methods four hospitals were included and their wastewater effluent was stu...