introduction: organizational justice is a variable that predicts many organizational variables. one of these variables that have an important role in many organizations today is organizational citizenship behavior. so this study aimed to study the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior among medical record staff in selected hospitals of isfahan in 20...

PURPOSE Seizures are a common reason for visiting the Emergency Department (ED). There is a growing body of literature highlighting disparities in seizure care related to race and ethnicity. Our goal was to identify racial and clinical characteristics of patients presenting to the ED with seizures and to determine factors associated with repeat ED visits for seizure. METHODS This was a retros...

Our aging population has exacerbated strong and divergent trends between health human resource supply and demand. One way to mitigate future inequities is through the adoption of health information technology (HIT). Our previous research showed a number of risks and mitigating factors which affected HIT implementation success. We confirmed these findings through semistructured interviews with n...

Searching medical records is challenging due to their inherent implicit knowledge – such knowledge may be known by medical practitioners, but it is hidden from an information retrieval (IR) system. For example, it is intuitive for a medical practitioner to assert that patients with heart disease are likely to have records from the hospital’s cardiology department. In this paper, we propose to c...

PROVIDER COMMUNICATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HOUSEHOLDS LIVING IN HIGH AND LOW INCOME DISTRICTS OF MASHHAD Somayeh Fazaeli, Mehdi Yousefi, Zahra-Sadat Ershadnia, Saeed Fazaeli. Medical Records and Health Information Technology Department, school of paramedical sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran; Department of Health Economics and Management Sciences, School of Hea...

introduction: hospitals, like most executive agencies have scarified the importance of policy, planning and supervision with their executive actions. with their errors, they waste the resources and remain away from development and competitive arena.so during recent years the ministry of health and medical education as well as other areas, in order to make rational government size, strengthening...

the purpose of the present study was to assess job stress in medical records personnel. 117 females and 78 males were assessed by osipow et al.'s job roles inventory. data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and chi-square test. the findings indicated that the physical environment was the main source of stress for the staff of the four different units of the medical records department,...