introduction: self-assessment in healthcare is inevitable, like in all other sections. scarce resources, necessity of performance refining, vitality of provided services and quality of services are evidence for necessity of having a proper system of self-assessment of performance in this area. hence, the purpose of present study was to study areas of improvement based on european foundation for...

Electronic health records (EHRs) have potential to improve quality and safety of healthcare. However, EHR users have experienced safety concerns from EHR design and usability features that are not optimally adapted for the complex work flow of real-world practice. Few strategies exist to address unintended consequences from implementation of EHRs and other health information technologies. We pr...

the article by cheri wilson, “patient safety and healthcare quality: the case for language access”, highlights 
the challenges of providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services (clas) to patients with 
limited english proficiency (lep). as the us pursues high-value, high-performance healthcare, our ability 
to meet the needs of our most vulnerable will determine whether we succeed...

background: trauma is a major healthcare challenge worldwide. in developing countries, most road deaths happen during the pre-hospital phase; consequently, pre-hospital trauma care has received considerable attention during the past decades. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the quality of pre-hospital oxygen therapy in patients with multiple trauma. patients and methods: thi...

european foundation for quality management (efqm) model is a widely used quality management system (qms) worldwide, including iran. current study aims to verify the quality assessment results of iranian national program for hospital evaluation (inphe) based on those of efqm.this cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012 on a sample of emergency departments (eds) affiliated with tehran univers...

Background and Objectives: The increasing pressure on health systems to improve quality of health care, require them to develop novel conceptual framework and indices aimed at evaluating decision variables in the contemporary complex community. Customer Quality is a newly introduced concept addressing capability of patients in contribution to healthcare process and cooperation with healthcare p...

a study was carried out in a strip of a river and in a nearby well in the rainy and dry seasons to assess the impact of tobacco waste disposal on the roadsides. there were significant seasonal variations in the concentration of nicotine being higher (p

No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. Everyone is in favor of quality healthcare and improving it. However, to date, initially highly touted measures prove be meaningless metrics about 5-10 years. That is, when the are scientifically studied, they found little worth. The cycle then repeated, i.e., new again selected useless latest this may Centers for Medicare Medicaid’s (CM...