BACKGROUND The identification of patients who pose an epidemic hazard when they are admitted to a health facility plays a role in preventing the risk of hospital acquired infection. An automated clinical decision support system to detect suspected cases, based on the principle of syndromic surveillance, is being developed at the University of Lyon's Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse. This tool will an...

nutrition department has a critical effect on patient satisfaction and improves the therapeutic process and is one of the most important departments in hospitals. the current study was carried out to assess haccp implementation requirements in the nutrition department of the selected hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences in 2010. in this descriptive, cross sectional study, nutritio...

OBJECTIVE We assess the efficacy and utility of automatically generated textual summaries of patients' medical histories at the point of care. METHOD Twenty-one clinicians were presented with information about two cancer patients and asked to answer key questions. For each clinician, the information on one of the patients comprised their official hospital records, and for the other patient it...

objective: patient satisfaction is one of the most important indicators for measuring the quality of emergency services and health care. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the patients’ satisfaction in the emergency department (ed) of sina hospital. methods: this descriptive, cross-sectional study was performed during one month in sina hospital in 2014. data were collected by a questionn...

Objective: The primary objective of this study was to investigate the correlation between Total Leukocyte Count (TLC) and C-Reactive Protein (CRP) levels in paediatric bronchiolitis patients assess prognostic significance these markers disease severity patient outcomes. Study Design: A retrospective correlational conducted using records from a six-month period analyze relationship TLC CRP patie...

Medication errors have important effects on increased length of hospitalization, increased mortality and costs. We assessed the incidence of medication errors and characterize the error types in an emergency department in a large teaching hospital in Tehran. We also investigated the effect of Emergency Department pharmacists on patient safety with regard to recovery of potentially harmful m...

osteosarcoma is a primary malignant tumor of bone, which can involve jaws. this article reviews osteosarcoma of the jaws referred to the department of oral pathology, dental faculty of tehran university of medical sicences and pathology department of cancer institiute in imam khomeini hospital during 30 years from 1349 to 1378 and also reviews jaw osteosarcoma in english literature. the purpose...

Abstract Background Physicians do not prescribe opioid analgesics for pain treatment equally across groups, and such disparities may pose significant public health concerns. Although research suggests that institutional constraints cultural stereotypes influence doctors’ of pain, prior quantitative evidence is mixed. The objective this secondary analysis therefore to clarify which patient demog...

Medication errors have important effects on increased length of hospitalization, increased mortality and costs. We assessed the incidence of medication errors and characterize the error types in an emergency department in a large teaching hospital in Tehran. We also investigated the effect of Emergency Department pharmacists on patient safety with regard to recovery of potentially harmful m...