objectives: the current study aimed to first assess the quality, popularity and importance of websites providing persian health-related information, and second to evaluate the correlation of the popularity and importance ranking with quality score on the internet. materials and methods: the sample websites were identified by entering the health-related keywords into four most popular search eng...

introduction: consumers have referred to the web to learn how they can improve their health, prevent disease and learn details about specific diseases. while efforts are being made to monitor information found on the web especially with the emergence of her: electronic health record in iran, they are not enough to cover every web site with health information. as a result, it was decided to eval...

introduction: hospitals like other organizations need to be evaluated continuously. this is of vital importance due to the critical role of the hospitals in the society. this study aimed to determine and compare the evaluation scores of hospitals affliated with tums with their performance. methods and materials: it is a cross - sectional study which was performed in 27 public and private hospit...

conclusions the present study showed that the nursing students are not quite competent in the process of medication therapy both from their own and their clinical instructors’ perspectives. this finding shows the urgent need to implement some actions to strengthen the students’ skills in medication therapy. materials and methods a descriptive study was conducted. data gathered using a self-repo...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES With growing use of IT by healthcare professionals and patients, the opportunity for any unintended effects of technology to disrupt care health processes and outcomes is intensified. The objectives of this position paper by the IMIA Working Group (WG) on Technology Assessment and Quality Development are to highlight how our ongoing initiatives to enhance evaluation ar...

introduction: health literacy is a fundamental part of the healing promotion. the aim of this study was to evaluate periodontal health literacy among patients. materials and methods: 296 patients attending periodontal clinic who were above 16 years old participated in this study. gathering data was based on screening questions on a 5-point likert scale. after completion questionnaire, data was ...

BACKGROUND Validation is the process of providing evidence that tests and questionnaires are adequately and appropriately fulfilling the purposes for which they are developed. In this special issue, experts from several countries describe specific approaches to test validation and provide examples of their approach. These approaches and examples illustrate the validation framework implied by th...