Many studies have shown the crippling effects of sanctions on healthcare sector different countries, including Iran. Long-standing against Iran escalated recently and severely limited commercial activities with The devastating consequences these embargoes affected all aspects health care delivery in Iran, limiting availability critical medicines medical devices, negatively impacting primary car...

Customer orientation is one of the new approaches which is recently considered by the Iranian Healthcare Centers. The present study aims to identify the main factors of customer orientation in Iranian hospitals. The study is done through analysis of a questionnaire designed after recognition of the main variables. Iranian Social Security Organization Hospitals (the major governmental health ins...

A Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (UCBPP-PA14) is infectious both in an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf infiltration model and in a mouse full-thickness skin burn model. UCBPP-PA14 exhibits ecotype specificity for Arabidopsis, causing a range of symptoms from none to severe in four different ecotypes. In the mouse model, UCBPP-PA14 is as lethal as other well-studied P. aeruginosa strains. Mutations in ...

BACKGROUND Healthcare-seeking behavior is one of the factors determining the uptake and outcome of healthcare. However, few studies have discussed how and why diabetics seek healthcare assistance before meeting a physician. OBJECTIVES In this study, we explored the subjective experiences of healthcare-seeking behavior among Iranian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. PATIENTS AND METHOD...

BACKGROUND The manner in which healthcare professionals deliver bad news affects the way it is received, interpreted, understood, and dealt with. Despite the fact that clinicians are responsible for breaking bad news, it has been shown that they lack skills necessary to perform this task. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to explore Iranian mothers' experiences to receive bad news abou...

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BACKGROUND A dramatic increase in healthcare expenditures is a major health policy concern worldwide. Understanding factors that underlie the growth in healthcare expenditures is essential to assist decision-makers in finding best policies to manage healthcare costs. We aimed to examine the determinants of healthcare spending in Iran over the periods of 1978-2011. METHODS A time series analys...

Background Iranian single women are deprived of reproductive healthcare services, though the provision of such services to the public has increased. This study aimed to explore the experiences of Iranian single women on their access to reproductive health services.   Methods A qualitative design using a conventional content analysis method was used. Semi-structured interviews were held with 17 ...

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. World Health Organization reported there are more than 600 million elderly individuals in the world (1); a figure which will double by 2025 and will reach 2 billion people by 2050 (2,3).The immense changes in cultural, socioeconomic and demographic aspects of Iranian socie...

BACKGROUND The Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education published a 'Patient's Bill of Rights' in 2001. AIM To gain insight into the perception and practice of patients' rights in Iran. This paper reports on Iranian nurses' and physicians' perceptions and lived experiences of respecting patients' rights. METHODS A purposeful sample of eight nurses and five physicians working in a ce...