highly effective in developing and improving the quality of the provided services .so, the present study aims to compare the satisfaction of the patients suffering from anal fissure from inpatient and outpatient treatments. method: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 212 subjects who were selected through systematic sampling from the patients with anal fissure referring to motahari clin...

purpose: nowadays cancer patients want more detailed information and greater participation in decisions about their care. as a consequence, the demands on health care system to satisfy the complex care needs of oncology patients have increased tremendously. methods and materials: as part of a quality improvement exercise at the radiation oncology department, allan blair cancer center, regina, s...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of 2 different interventions on wait times at a hospital outpatient pharmacy: (1) giving feedback to employees about customer satisfaction with wait times and (2) giving a combined intervention package that included giving more specific feedback about actual wait times and goal setting for wait time reduction in addition to the custom...

data about the prevalence of communicable and non-communicable diseases, as one of the most important categories of epidemiological data, is used for interpreting health status of communities. this study aims to calculate the prevalence of outpatient diseases through the characterization of outpatient prescriptions. the data used in this study is collected from 1412 prescriptions for various ty...

Outpatient commitment (OPC), a major form of involuntary community-based treatment, has evolved in the United States on a state-by-state basis amidst a storm of controversy. The polarizing debate that has gone on intensely about OPC for the last two decades has all too often been devoid of data. This article reviews the various arguments pro and con about OPC, and then examines the research on ...

introduction: feedback cards are recommended as a feasible tool for structured written feedback delivery in clinical education while effectiveness of this tool on the medical students’ performance is still questionable. the purpose of this study was to compare the effects of structured written feedback by cards as well as verbal feedback versus verbal feedback alone on the clinical performance ...

the present study aims at locating the appropriate site for the training of medical students. it is argued that in community oriented medical education the training of medical students should take place where more patients come for consultation. this will result in students having a greater exposure to patients with a variety of medical problems. in order to find out the places where more patie...

This paper investigates the determinants of regional variations in outpatient antibiotic consumption using Swiss data. The analysis contributes to the debate on appropriate antibiotic use by improving the understanding of its determinants, and may help to define more effective health care policies to reduce the resistance phenomenon. Findings suggest that Switzerland exhibits relatively low lev...

conclusions intravenous acetaminophen reduced pain following outpatient urological surgery more significantly than meperidine. patients and methods in a prospective, randomized, double-blind clinical trial, 100 outpatients of urological surgery were studied in two groups of acetaminophen (a) and meperidine (m). patients in group a received 1g of acetaminophen in 100 ml saline within 15 minutes ...

a quasi. experimental study was conducted to investigate the antagonistic effect of flumazenil on the   recovery of patients above the age 50 year from anaesthesia receiving benzodiazepine products in one of   iran medical sciences university hospital's operating rooms .   a total of sixty middle aged patients were selected sequentially . thirty of them (12 females and 18 males )   were in...