background the pursuit of equity in health and healthcare has been the key feature of health policy in india. however, despite the policy significance, the volume of literature available on this issue is scarce. therefore, this paper is an attempt to examine the horizontal inequities in healthcare utilization, consisting of outpatient and inpatient care in 15 major states and north-eastern regi...

implementation of patient feedback is considered as a critical part of effective and efficient management in developed countries. the main objectives of this study were to assess patient satisfaction with the services provided in hospitals affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences, iran, identify areas of patient dissatisfaction, and find ways to improve patient satisfaction with hosp...

introduction: the important of comparing performance of hospitals using hospital indicators, has been made the necessary of utilizing of the application model inevitable. this study aimed to compare hospital performance key indicators simultaneity. methods: in this descriptive cross sectional and retrospective study, 31 hospitals of isfahan university of medical sciences were evaluated in 2007....

conclusions the serological characteristics of syphilis varied with gender and age. syphilis screening and control should be conducted for young patients and pregnant women, but special attention should also be paid to elderly inpatients. the trust assay is better used in syphilis screening and for judgment of curative effects, but the diagnosis needs specific methods, such as the tp-elisa and ...

Background There is limited evidence on the course of health service costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, which might also be affected by source of cost data. Thus, this study examines: i) differences in health care costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, ii) whether these differences vary by source of cost-data (self-report vs. administrative), and iii) predi...

this study was conducted to monitor the rate of inpatient mortality and its associated factors following open reconstruction of abdominal aortic aneurysm (aaa) in a tertiary hospital in tehran, iran. this retrospective study was a chart review of 112 patients undergoing open in­frarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery in one of the main tertiary hospitals in tehran, iran. baseline data (demog...

background and objectives: questionnaire-based survey is the most common way of assessing patient satisfaction. however, most relevant survey instruments have been developed in western countries, and valid and reliable context-specific survey tools in this area are lacking. to help filling this gap, in this study we have developed and validated the preliminary version of the novel brief inpatie...

objective: violence imposed on wives by their inpatient psychiatric husbands has not been studied yet. the current study surveyed the rates and predictors of violence committed by inpatient psychiatric husbands towards their wives. methods: a convenient sample of wives of 209 married male psychiatric inpatients completed a self-reported questionnaire. they were asked about physical, emotional, ...

This edition of Hazard examines horse related injury in the VISS database, the Victorian Coroner’s Facilitation System and the Victorian Inpatient Minimum Dataset. The analysis is undertaken in two sections, with the first assessing injuries occurring during horse riding, the second, injuries sustained during other horse related activities. Prevention strategies are a major focus. The article u...