abstract objective: according to the definition of world health organization (who), attempting suicide is an act that a person intentionally and without others’ interference shows an abnormal behavior (such as harming themselves or eating a drug higher than treatment dose) and his objective is realizing his expected changes. the purpose of this study was to investigate the demographic character...

introduction: methodologically correct assessment of patient satisfaction (ps) plays a crucial role for quality-improvement purposes. evaluation of iranian literature on emergency department’s ps resulted in an emerging need for developing a new instrument with satisfactory psychometric properties. the present study, aimed to develop and initially validate a scale to measure ps in emergency dep...

Patient education in emergency departments faces complexities and challenges due to the wide variety of clinical care provided in this setting. Despite widespread recognition of the value and benefits of education, we frequently see that patient education in hospital emergency departments is less than optimal and that emergency departments are not employed as venues conducive to providing suita...