introduction: patient safety improvement requires ongoing culture. this cultural change is the most important challenge that managers are faced with in creation of a safe system. this study aims to show the results of initiatives to improvement in patient safety culture in fateme al-zahra hospital. method: in the quasi-experimental research, patient safety culture was measured using the persian...

conclusions the hai prevalence found in this study was lower than hai rates reported in some other studies from iran. the isolates showed high resistance to common antibiotics. guidelines for improving hai surveillance and stringent measures to reduce the prevalence of multidrug-resistant hais must be implemented to reduce the rate and the consequences of hais. results a total of 16,140 patient...

background: health system pharmacies, like other health care professional, practice under a number of mandated stan­dards. basic concepts of quality assurance (qa) standards should be applied to hospital pharmacy practice. the survey re­ported here is to assess qa system implementation and its standard indicators observation in tehran university of medical sci­ences (tums) hospitals' pharmacies...

background: residents play an important role in the delivery of hospital care. they regularly work overnight, in emergency situations and with workload and stress which can affect their performance and quality of working life (qwl). this study explores the qwl and its contributory factors in residents working at hospitals affiliated with tehran university of medical sciences (tums), tehran, ira...

background: hospitals generate relatively large quantities of wastewater that may contain various potentially hazardous ma­terials; therefore the proper management of hospital wastewater is essential. methods:   in this cross-sectional study, the quality and quantity of wastewater in the hospitals of tehran university of medi­cal sciences (tums), tehran, iran, were studied and the suitable meth...

due to consuming about 50%-80% of health resources, hospitals are the greatest and costly operational units in iranian health system. so allocation of resources specially human and space resources as the most expensive ones is really important for further controlling of costs, analysis of costs and making suitable policies for increasing the profitability and allocation of resources and improve...

carbon monoxide (co) poisoning is one of the most common causes of death in iran. the present study investigated the indoor and outdoor co concentrations at hospitals under the supervision of mazandaran university of medical sciences in sari, iran.indoor and outdoor measured co were conducted over a period of one month during the 2012 winter season in 4 hospital kitchens using a direct measurem...

background: nosocomial infections are an important cause of hospital mortalities. staphylococcus aureus (s. aureus) carriers among medical staff are an important source of nosocomial infections. the purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of the nasal carriers of s. aureus and antibiotic resistance in staff of nikuee hospital, qom, iran. materials and methods: in this cross-sect...

The Prevalence of Carbapenemase Genes in Carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative Bacilli, Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Tehran, Iran, 2019-2020

Factors Affecting the Level of Nurses' Quality Life in Khorramabad (IRAN) Teaching Hospital during COVID-19 Epidemic, 2020