BACKGROUND Caring forms the core of nursing and midwifery. Despite caring being an important emotional aspect of midwifery and nursing, there are general public complaints about uncaring behaviour in midwifery. Therefore, there is a need to explore caring from midwives’ point of view with the hope of identifying solutions and recommendations for midwifery practice. Furthermore, the study aimed ...

introduction: hospital portals, as the first virtual entry, play an important role in connecting people with hospital and also presenting hospital virtual services. the main purpose of this article was to suggest a conceptual model to improve tehran private hospital portals. the suggested model can be used by all the health portals that are in the same circumstances and all the health portals w...

introduction: measuring the extent and nature of outsourcing in public hospitals affiliated with tehran university of medical sciences (tums), tehran, iran was the aim of this study. methods: in this cross-sectional applied study, we reviewed the relevant literature and interviewed with 5 experts to introduce various indices of measuring the extent and nature of outsourcing. we recommended 6 si...

introduction: human behavior and activity are resulting from their motives or needs. managers could timely and properly satisfy the needs and motivation of their stuffs by understanding and predict their real motivations and needs. this study was conducted to identify factors affecting staff motivation of public and private hospitals in isfahan. methods: in this descriptive – analytical study 2...

BACKGROUND In response to the rapid aging of the population in Japan, many care systems have been created in quick succession. Establishment of discharge planning departments (DPDs) in hospitals is one of them. In this study, we compared the distribution and characteristics of DPDs and the characteristics of the hospitals that have DPDs between 2001 and 2010 in Japan. METHODS We mailed a ques...

Fig 1 is incorrect. The authors have provided a corrected version here. There is an error in the second sentence of the Results section. The correct sentence is: Our analysis is restricted to the 64 facilities offering delivery care: Eleven hospitals (one large public regional hospital, four public district hospitals, two private hospitals and four Christian hospitals), eleven private maternity...