objectives to explore adequacy of nursing documentation and nurses' knowledge about the process. materials and methods the study was a cross-sectional study. the data were collected from 170 nurses who selected to participate in the study with census sampling method from 32 medical–surgical units at four university hospitals in tabriz. for assessing the quality of nurses' documents, 2...

background: lack of access to health services has been mentioned as one of the main causes of health inequity in health system. the aim of this study was to measure horizontal inequity in access to outpatient services in shiraz. method: this household survey was conducted among 1608 participants above 18 years in shiraz in 2012. four-stage sampling was used. according to high amount of zero-val...

Background: Plasma medicine is an innovative and emerging field used in a broad range of medical conditions. Objective: The present study focused on consumption, documentation pattern and traceability of plasma-derived medicines in a teaching and referral hospital. Method: A two-step study was conducted from October to December 2015. During the first phase, the patient records receiving plasm...

Background: Plasma medicine is an innovative and emerging field used in a broad range of medical conditions. Objective: The present study focused on consumption, documentation pattern and traceability of plasma-derived medicines in a teaching and referral hospital. Method: A two-step study was conducted from October to December 2015. During the first phase, the patient records receiving plasm...

background india’s health sector witnessed some major policy changes in 1990s that aimed at making health services more accessible to the population.   methods in this paper, i tried to present some preliminary results of the significant changes that occurred between 1995/6 and 2004, especially in relation to the question of access to healthcare for the poor and rural population using data from...

INTRODUCTION Rapid urbanisation in Kenya has resulted in growth of slums in urban centres, characterised by poverty, inadequate social services and poor health outcomes. The government's initiatives to improve access to quality healthcare for mothers and children are largely limited to public health facilities, which are few and/or inaccessible in underserved areas such as the slums. The 'Partn...