INTRODUCTION Many studies support the positive short and long-term developmental care for premature infants. This study aimed to determine the congruence of nurses' activity in four areas of developmental care in order to obtain basic information for authorities to provide a program to achieve related standards in the future. METHODS The study was performed on 70 nurses working in neonatal in...

background & aim: maternal satisfaction of health services is an inherent element of healthcare policies, and quality of midwifery care essentially influences this parameter. this study aimed to evaluate maternal satisfaction of postpartum care and its association with midwifery care at the urban health centers of mashhad, iran in 2012. methods:this descriptive, cross sectional study was conduc...

Infection preventionists (IP) play an increasingly important role in preventing health care-associated infection in the physical environment associated with new construction or renovation of health care facilities. The Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospital and Healthcare Facilities, 2010, formerly known as "AIA Guidelines" was the origin of the "infection control risk assessment" n...

Patient navigation is an intervention that promotes linkage and retention in medical care through the guidance and support of health workers known as patient navigators. The aim of patient navigation is to help patients access the healthcare system so they receive the standard of care in a timely and effective way.1 The first patient navigation program was started in 1990 in the Harlem neighbor...

This paper examines “doctrinal feedback” in negligence law, and specifically in medical malpractice. Doctrinal feedback is an organic, reiterative process that causes inadvertent and inadvisable changes in both law and practice. It occurs when: (1) the ambiguity of the applicable legal standard prompts those it governs to behave overcautiously, so as to avoid the gray areas of liability; (2) th...