maintaining dignity and respect is among patients’ most fundamental rights. the importance of patient dignity, the status quo, patients’ needs, and a shortage of survey studies in this area were the underlying incentives for conducting this study. this was a cross-sectional descriptive study in which data were collected through patient dignity inventory (pdi). the questionnaire was completed by...

The Tyndall-DMS-Mote is a wireless sensor device that can monitor patient vital signs non-intrusively within and outside their home. Patient real-time vital sign readings (dynamic data) and archived records (static data) need to be managed, correlated and analysed in a cohesive manner to produce effective results. The Data Management System (DMS) has been developed to intelligently manage this ...

emergency departments (eds) are the most challenging ward with respect to patient delay. the goal of this study is to present strategies that have proven to reduce delay and overcrowding in eds. in this review article, initial electronic database search resulted in a total of 1006 articles. thirty articles were included after reviewing full texts. inclusion criteria were assessments of real pat...

introduction: patient safety culture is an important part of improvement in the safety of health care. knowing its present status is required for development of safety culture. the present study aimed to evaluate the current status of patient safety culture in hospitals of three central provinces of iran. method: the present cross-sectional study was performed in teaching hospitals of tehran, a...