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BACKGROUND Current practices of reporting critical laboratory values make it challenging to measure and assess the timeliness of receipt by the treating physician as required by The Joint Commission's 2008 National Patient Safety Goals. METHODS A multidisciplinary team of laboratorians, clinicians, and information technology experts developed an electronic ALERTS system that reports critical ...

introduction: job satisfaction is one of the key factors affecting professional success which, in turn, allows an organization to achieve its objectives. and ultimately it can result in individual and social health. thus, managers are highly concerned with factors affecting job satisfaction. in this study, it was decided to investigate factors determining the staff's job satisfaction. methods a...

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...

Clinical guidelines are being developed for the purpose of reducing medical errors and unjustified variations in medical practice, and for basing medical practice on evidence. Encoding guidelines in a computer-interpretable format and integrating them with the electronic medical record can enable delivery of patient-specific recommendations when and where needed. Since great effort must be expe...

Fast and holistic access to the patients’ clinical record is a major requirement of modern medical decision support systems (DSS). While electronic health records (EHRs) have replaced the traditional paper-based records in most healthcare organization, the data entry into these systems remains largely manual. Speech recognition technology promises substitution of the more convenient speech-base...

background: hydatidosis is the most important zoonotic disease that causes significant economic losses and public health problems worldwide. this study was conducted to evaluate retrospectively 136 patients diagnosed with hydatid cyst disease at two university medical centers between 2007 and 2013 in in zanjan area, northwest iran. methods: we surveyed medical records of infected patients with ...