objective: one of the most important characteristics of an effective employee performance is person's sympathetic components of emotional intelligence that has been increasingly considered in an enterprise environment. in this article, we will survey this component in promoting citizenship behavior of physicians. materials and methods: in a descriptive, co relational and statistical community a...

background: the family physician plan has recently been implemented in three provinces of iran on a pilot basis and is going to be implemented throughout iran in the future. through a qualitative design, this study aims to determine probable implementation challenges of family physician plan in kerman. methods: this study was conducted in kerman in 2013. data were collected through interviews w...

background: the family physician program has been carried out to provide easy and appropriate access to health services in towns with populations under 20,000 people. the purpose of the present study was to determine the knowledge, attitude, and satisfaction toward the family physician program in rural regions of isfahan, iran. methods: in this descriptive, analytical study, 1200 people from th...

Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management Abstract: The physician-patient relationship plays a significant role in health care, having the potential to considerably affect the health of the patients involved. In Western societies, physicians have traditionally maintained virtually exclusive control over medical information and thus dominant positions in physician-patient interactions. H...

BACKGROUND Role modelling is an effective teaching method in medical education. We sought to better understand role modelling by examining the insights of respected physician role models. METHODS We conducted 30-minute in-depth interviews with 29 highly regarded role models at 2 large teaching hospitals. We coded the transcripts independently, and compared our coding for agreement. Content an...

BACKGROUND The employment of physician assistants (PAs) is a strategy to improve access to care. Since the new millennium, a handful of countries have turned to PAs as a means to bridge the growing gap between the supply and demand of medical services. However, little is known about this new workforce entity from the patient's perspective. The objective of this study was to assess the willingne...

Most computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems have built-in support for order sets (collections of orders grouped by a clinical purpose). Evidence and experience suggest that order sets are important tools for ordering efficiency and decision support and may influence ordering. Developing and maintaining order sets is costly, so hospitals often must prioritize which order sets can be c...

Payment is in nature an act of money transfer from one entity to another, and it is obvious that a payment method will be valued as long as the transaction can be completed with safety no matter what technology was used. The key to U-payment is convenience and security in the transfer of financial information. The purpose of this paper is to find a desirable U-payment scheme promoting seamlessn...

Reputation of a venture capitalist (VC) is based on experience, expertise and past performance. We investigate the relation between VC reputation measures and both the probability of future IPOs and their long-run performance. We measure long-run firm performance following three widely used approaches, namely industry-adjusted operating performance, market-to-book ratio, and long-run listing su...