introduction: implementation of professional standards as well as evaluation and assessments of providers has an important role in health promotion of each society. the purpose of this study was to assess the midwives working at midwifery offices as to performance of professional standards and effectiveness of continuous evaluation and education on them. methods: this is an interventional study...

the bus system in a high-speed public transportation systems are equipped with modern technology that due to accuracy, speed and flexibility have been considered as one of the improvement solutions in tehran's public transport system. in this article the performance of brt line three of tehran has been evaluated based on the established standard in 2013, developed by the institute for deve...

background: in a variety of industries, accreditation is recognized as a symbol of quality indicating that the organization meets certain performance standards. in this regard, health records are among the primary documents used by health care facilities to evaluate compliance with the standards set by the accreditation agencies. this study compares the strengths and weaknesses of information m...

In this paper, we present a set of techniques for the evaluation of brain tissue classifiers on a large data set of MR images of the head. Due to the difficulty of establishing a gold standard for this type of data, we focus our attention on methods which do not require a ground truth, but instead rely on a common agreement principle. Three different techniques are presented: the Williams' inde...

internal evaluation has started in 1995 in various educational groups of different medical universites, currently, more than 120 groups are involved in this project. the faculty members have a key role in the process as the main elements of internal evaluation. internal evaluation was not only helpful in identifying different practical aspects of education, but also had a prominent role in rais...

introduction. setting up “clinical skills labs” has been started in some iranian medical universities since five years ago. in an educational workshop for clinical skills labs managers in january 2001, many managers stated that if there were standards for these centers it would help them define the necessities of the center. these standards would also make the basis for internal and external ev...

The SEVAL Standards define the demands placed on an evaluation but do not specify the instruments to be used in it. Ideally, an evaluation will fulfill all the criteria listed in the SEVAL Standards. However, it will not always be possible to heed each Standard equally, and it is thus far more appropriate to adapt the SEVAL Standards to the specific evaluation situation. This can mean certain S...