BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Pregnant women tend to experience anxiety and stress when faced with the changes to their biology, environment and personal relationships. The identification of these factors and the prevention of their side effects are vital for both mother and fetus. The present study was conducted to validate and to examine the factor structure of the Persian version of the Pregnanc...

Background: Hospital preparedness for accidents and disasters is vital in maintaining promoting community health. However, the country’s hospitals are not well prepared disasters. The hospital safety index (HSI) was 42% Iranian 2014. This study aims to investigate HSI 2020 provide solutions improve it. Materials Methods: cross-sectional descriptive performed hospitals. results recorded Farsi ve...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent of implementation for patient safety (PS) and patient-centeredness (PC) strategies and their association with hospital characteristics (type, ownership, teaching status, annual evaluation grade) in Iran. METHODS A cross-sectional study through an adapted version of the MARQuIS questionnaire, eliciting information from hospital and nursing managers in 84 Iranian...

BACKGROUND The area of e-Health is broad and has an excellent growth potential. An increasing number of experts believe that e-Health will fuel the next breakthroughs in health system improvements throughout the world, but there is frequent evidence of unsustainable use of e-Health systems in medical centres, particularly hospitals, for different reasons in different countries. Iran is also a d...

BACKGROUND Nitrous oxide (N(2)O) is the oldest anesthetic in routine clinical use and its occupational exposure is under regulation by many countries. As studies are lacking to demonstrate the status of nitrous oxide levels in operating and recovery rooms of Iranian hospitals, we aimed to study its level in teaching hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. METHODS During a 6-month ...

BACKGROUND Enterococcus faecium is a multi-resistant nosocomial pathogen causing infection in debilitated patients. Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium (VREfm) are a major concern and increased dramatically worldwide especially in hospitals environment. The current study focused on determining the high prevalence and distribution patterns of antibiotic resistance and also its genetic link...

background: healthcare organizations is being increasingly used. the aim of this study was to clarify psc statusin iranian hospitals using a meta-analysis method.nowadays, for quality improvement, measuring patient safety culture (psc) inmethodssid and iranmedex using the search terms including patient safety, patient safety culture, patientsafety climate and combined with hospital (such as “ho...