1Manor Hospital, Walsall WS2 9PS, UK, and Universities Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA; 2Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK, and University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; 3Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9DX, UK; 4Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical Sch...

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Introduction: A hospital is one of society’s most important social institutions; however, poor organizational performance results in delayed treatment, disease progression, or patient mortality. This qualitative study seeks to investigate organizational excellence in Iranian medical sciences universities from the perspective of hospital managers. Material and Methods: The present qualitative s...

BACKGROUND One preliminary step to strengthen medical education research would be determining the research priorities. The aim of this study was to determine the research priorities of medical education in Iran in 2007-2008. METHODS This descriptive study was carried out in two phases. Phase one was performed in 3 stages and used Delphi technique among academic staffs of Isfahan University of...

introduction: one of the common methods for scientific activity assessment is scientometrics. it has been made possible with citation databases like web of science (wos) and scopus. in this paper, we studied the scientific production rate of hamadan university of medical sciences during 11 years via scientometrics methods. methods: in a descriptive, cross-sectional study, data was collected by ...

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