Background: Hospital accreditation is an external evaluation of a hospital’s structures, processes and results by an independent professional accreditation body using pre-established optimum standards. Hospital accreditation has an important role in improving quality, safety, effectiveness and efficiency of hospital services. A generic questionnaire is usually used to accredit all hospitals. Ho...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) health care systems worldwide are faced with the challenge of responding to the needs of people with chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart failure and mental illness. Chronic disease management (CDM) is a systematic approach to improve health care for people with chronic disease. This paper studies two different approaches to the management ...

In management of patients with an emergency, airway management and ventilatory care are the highest priorities (1, 2). Everybody who is confronted with a patient in distress has to start with the ABC’s: Airway, Breathing, and Circulation. Establishment of an airway is the first step in the ABC’s. If the airway is blocked, death will occur within a few minutes. When an airway is only partially b...

The lack of adequate numbers of hospital beds to accommodate the injured is a main problem in public hospitals. For control of occupancy of bed, we design a dynamic system that announces status of bed when it change with admission or discharge of a patient. This system provide a wide network in country for bed management, especially for ICU and CCU beds that help us to distribute injured patien...

Five healthcare systems that have either won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in Health Care or been documented in extensive case studies share a common model of management: they all emphasize a broadly accepted mission; measured performance; continuous quality improvement; and responsiveness to the needs of patients, physicians, employees, and community stakeholders. This approach p...

Background: Although inequality in access to health care for migrant patients is well described, less is known about inequalities originating within the health-care system regarding choice of diagnostic procedure, diagnostic delay, treatment options, secondary prevention and follow-up offered to patients with a refugee or immigrant background. Provision of specialized services for migrant patie...