background and objectives: evidence increasingly highlights the impact of emotional intelligence in managers on the productivity and performance of their organizations. given the importance of decision-making in the management process, this study explored the relationship between emotional intelligence and decision-making quality in hospital managers. methods: a cross-sectional questionnaire-ba...

background and objectives: standard clinical documentation is an integral part of quality patient care. this study aimed to explore compliance of two iranian teaching hospitals with the clinical documentation standards.   methods: a total of 400 records were surveyed. data were collected using a checklist of standard measures. the checklist comprised 15 items selected from relevant guidelines...

the history of hospital construction is primarily divided into pre-islamic and isalmic periods; the latter also witnessed the emergence of european and american hospitals after the arrival of western medicine in iran. kerman morsalin hospital, belonging to church mission society hospitals, is an example of such hospitals built under the supervision of british doctors in iran. this hospital, lis...

hospitals have a long history throughout the history of medicine. first hospitals are originated from persia in ancient times in the sassanid dynasty (2nd to 6th century ad). after the advent of islam in persia (iran) in 637 ad, medical knowledge and also hospitals were ourished and advanced by persian scholars. shiraz azodi hospital and university was one of the important hospitals in persia....

background: drug use evaluation (due) aims at improving the patients’ care. studying the administration pattern of intravenous immunoglobulin (ivig) is an important research topic due to its significant role in the treatment and controlling of many disorders, high prices, and limited availability of this drug. methods: this observational cross-sectional study was conducted at shahid sadoughi ho...

background treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction (ami) is time related, so delay in treatment could affect prognosis. recognizing pre-hospital or in-hospital delays in initiating treatment and reducing these factors is very efficacious in treatment of these patients. results 35.7% patients arrived during one hour of symptom onset, and 7.9% arrived after 24 hours. patients havin...

introduction althoughthere is a consensus that the economic burden of burn injury is high, but few studies have conducted about cost of burns injury among pediatric in developing countries. we explored the main factors influencing on hospital costs and length of stay (los) associated with pediatric burns injury in kermanshah, iran. methods and material we performed a review ofmedical records fr...

background hospitals are the most costly operational and really important units of health system because they consume about 50%-89% of total health resources. therefore efficient use of resources could help in saving and reallocating the financial and physical resources. objectives the aim of this study was to obtain an overview of hospitals' performance status by applying different techniques,...

results the five determinants of cost, inconvenience, fear, organization, and patient-dentist relationship were determined as barriers to access to dental services among which the cost and patient-dentist relationship were identified as the first and last priorities with the coordinates (1.4 and 1.4) and (1.25 and -0.65), respectively. conclusions high cost of dental care has led to not referri...

background and objectives: family, personal and social factors play a role in resiliency. so this study was done for investigating the mediating role of spiritual intelligent in relationship of mindfulness and resilience in vali-e-asr hospital of birjand. methods: the present study is an analyzing correlation type. 120 staffs (remedial, administrative, social service) of vali-e-asr hospital wer...