Health services, 2016

Calculating the Total Cost of Services at One Health Center Before and After Assignment (2014-2016)

Background and Purpose: Accurate calculating and evaluating of cost of services would result in clarity on the ways to achieve the desired goals in outsourcing of health centers and health comprehensive centers. The present study was carried out to calculate the total cost of services at one health center before and after assignment to private sector (2014-2016) in Iran. Methods: This researc...

Editorial: Services Computing in 2016

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) will celebrate its ninth anniversary in 2016. In the first issue of 2016, I would like to report the achievements of TSC to our readers, authors, reviewers, TSC editorial board and TSC executive advisory board. First, TSC has gained its impact factor of 3.049 and its five-year impact factor of 3.181, which places TSC in the elite class of highly ran...

Nurse-led HIV services and quality of care at health facilities in Kenya, 2014–2016

OBJECTIVE To develop a novel measure to characterize human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) programme quality at health facilities in Kenya and explore its associations with patient- and facility-level characteristics. METHODS We developed a composite indicator to measure quality of HIV care, comprising: assessment of eligibility for antiretroviral therapy (ART); initiation of ART; and retention ...

Model of Acceptance of E-Health Services

Aims: Understanding the factors that underpin the adoption of new healthcare electronic systems and services is of great importance. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to provide the model of acceptance of electronic health services by patients. Instruments & Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 357 patients in Tehran hospitals during 2018-2019. The subjects ...

Ethics in family planning/reproductive health services