introduction: increasing costs of health and treatment services has led health economics specialists and even physicians in all countries to seek new methods for controlling and reducing costs in medical and health services. the present study was aimed to estimate the costs of a cardiac care unit (ccu) in a governmental hospital in iran. methods: in order to determine the end cost, a stepwise p...

BACKGROUND Paramedic and emergency personnel may encounter directly many events that threat their own wellbeing during their daily work. This study was conducted to examine the prevalence rate of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among two groups of paramedic and emergency personnel in south-east Iran. METHODS The study employed a descriptive design and was conducted in four hospital emer...

BACKGROUND Occupational exposure to blood and body fluids (BBFs) is a hazard of many occupations, particularly hospital-based health care providers. However, non-hospital-based health care workers (HCWs) and other personnel not providing health care are also at risk. AIMS To present the results of surveillance of accidental exposure to BBFs among non-hospital-based French military personnel b...

introduction: many organizations, especially, service organizations, relative to their goals and mission, have a special view towards quality phenomena and its management and are turning to approaches such as tqm to help manage their business. this study examined the tqm indicators gap in isfahan khorshid hospital. as fuzzy set theory is better than the logical theory for estimating the linguis...