Although most OECD countries have achieved universal (or near universal) coverage for a core set of health services, including consultations with doctors and hospital care, issues affordability accessibility still hinder the use services. Access to medical care requires enough doctors, equitably distributed across country. An under-supply can lead longer waiting times or patients having travel ...

Public confidence is shaken by declining health care quality indicators. Healthcare still conceptually and practically undefined, despite improvements in hospital safety of care. So, the purpose this analysis to define term "healthcare quality." The framework was based on concept technique developed Walker Avant, which frequently cited nursing literature. We looked through five academic literat...

and Quality (AHRQ) has annually reported on progress and opportunities for improving health care quality and reducing health care disparities. As mandated by the U.S. Congress, the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) focuses on “national trends in the quality of health care provided to the American people” while the National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) focuses on “prevailing disp...

Background andObjectives: Nurses comprise a majority of healthcare professionals. Therefore, their quality of life can directly impact the performance of health system at different level. The aim of this study was to explore the potential impact of work shift on physical, mental, and social aspects of nurses’ health.   Methods: A sample of 300 nurses from hospitals of the Rasht city situated ...

Background: Minimally invasive hysterectomy is generally preferable to abdominal hysterectomy. The technicity index (TI) is the proportion of hysterectomies performed by minimally invasive surgery. Many centers globally have started to audit local TI as a quality indicator, but only a handful have published their results to help define international standards of care. <st...