background and aims: in order to plan for preventing and decreasing the rate of nursing errors, understanding of nurse’s perception of nursing errors could be very helpful. this study was thus designed to examine the critical care nurses perception of nursing errors from view point of critical care nurses. methods: this study was conducted in 9 hospitals in qazvin province located in north of i...

background & aim: intimate partner violence (ipv) is a global public health issue leading to the death of many people every year. experience of infertility profoundly affects the personal well-being of women. this study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and contributing factors of psychological ipv in infertile women referring to the infertility centers affiliated to shahid beheshti university o...

background and objectives: non-ergonomic computer work has emerged as a significant cause of musculoskeletal disorders among employees of health care organizations.  given the negative impact of such disorders on quality of work life, safety, and performance of hospital staff, there is a need to evaluate the exposure of this staff to the ergonomic risks associated with the computer-based jobs. ...

Risk management in health care has developed and matured over the last many years in the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia (Vincent, 1995, p. 2). At its origins, the focus was primarily on developing a framework for controlling litigation, a major worry for clinicians and hospitals. Studies of medical error in health care have brought a growing awareness of the scale of the problems...

background: air pollution in tehran is widely recognized as a serious environmental challenge, posing significant threats to the health of the resident population. improving air quality will be difficult for many reasons, including climate and topography, heavy dependence on motor vehicles for mobility, and limited resources to reduce polluting emissions. consequently, it is useful to have info...

background : drivers are vulnerable to musculoskeletal and psychological disorders because of substantially harmful agents in this stressful occupation. this study aims to investigate the influence of driver’s physical and psychological health on the risk of road accidents using fuzzy logic approach. methods : two input variables including musculoskeletal disorders (msds) and mental health, alo...

This study examined the loss of productivity and health risk status associated with employees who provide care for an ill dependent. A total of 16,651 employees (23% response rate) of a major financial services company completed a confidential Health Risk Appraisal (HRA) that included an eight-item version of the Work Limitations Questionnaire and a self-report of time missed from work during t...

OBJECTIVES This project aimed to gain better understandings of northern Indigenous risk perception related to food safety and to identify the role that Indigenous knowledge (IK) plays in risk management processes to support more effective and culturally relevant benefit-risk (B-R) management strategies. STUDY DESIGN The project used an exploratory qualitative case study design to investigate ...

There is economic pressure towards the postponement of the retirement age, but employers are still reluctant to employ older workers. We investigate the comparative behavior of juniors and seniors in experiments conducted both onsite with the employees of two large firms and in a conventional laboratory environment with students and retirees. We show that seniors are no more risk averse than ju...