background: nowadays, many organizations such as hospitals have realized that utilization of quality management models and systems is the best way for them to compete, survive and develop. therefore, 5s (sorting, straightening, systematic cleaning, standardizing, and sustaining) model was implemented in three units of imam reza hospital (kermanshah, iran) including medical records, nutrition, a...

introduction: the goal of training activities is to grow potential abilities and intelligence in human. evaluation of training service has main role in achieving qualified educational activities and increasing students’ skills. therefore, this study evaluated the performance of training educators from points of view of medical record students in kashan university of medical sciences in 2005-6. ...

introduction: using hospital databases is extremely depended on an accurate classification that is based on clinical coding. we aimed to determine the validity of procedural coding in teaching hospitals. methods: in this cross-sectional study, we selected 246 medical records from kashan hospitals in 1386 and recoded procedures. procedures, coders’ information, and documentation principals were ...

introduction: logbooks show whether medical students have been exposed to a particular disease and whether they are able to perform particular practices or not. to evaluate the training status of the medical students in the pediatric ward of shiraz university of medical sciences, the data about the students’ knowledge of different diseases in different parts of the pediatric ward in 2011 was co...

cancer cells Shun-Fa Yang, Mu-Kuan Chen, Yih-Shou Hsieh, Tsung-Te Chung, Yi-Hsien Hsieh, Chiao-Wen Lin, Jen-Liang Su, Ming-Hsui Tsai and Chih-Hsin Tang* Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan Department of Medical Research, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital...

Vulvar cancer is a rare disease both in Spain and in the rest of the world. The incidence ranges from 0.5 to 3 cases per 100,000 women per year. The common symptom of vulvar cancer is a permanent itching. Vulvar surgery research has found that complications such as comorbidity, humidity, dehiscence and infections are among the most frequent reasons for delaying hospital discharges. This is a re...

QUALITY PROBLEM In low-income countries, medical record management is often lacking. We sought to evaluate the impact of an inexpensive business process re-engineering project on the accessibility and completeness of patient information and on physician satisfaction. DESIGN Pre-post intervention study during 2006-07, using time-motion studies, medical record audits and physician surveys. SE...

This paper describes a probabilistic case detection system (CDS) that uses a Bayesian network model of medical diagnosis and natural language processing to compute the posterior probability of influenza and influenza-like illness from emergency department dictated notes and laboratory results. The diagnostic accuracy of CDS for these conditions, as measured by the area under the ROC curve, was ...

ÇIĞDEM USUL AFŞAR1, FERYAL KARACA2, MERAL GÜNALDI3, İSMAIL OĞUZ KARA4, MELEK ERKIŞI4, BERKSOY ŞAHIN4, BERNA BOZKURT DUMAN5, SEMRA PAYDAŞ4, VEHBI ERCOLAK6 1Ministry of Health, Istanbul Education and Research Hospital, Department of Medical Oncology, Istanbul 2Adana Numune Education and Research Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, Adana 3Bakirkoy Sadi Konuk Education and Research Hospital...