Standardization of medical service indicators: A useful technique for hospital administration

Admission Indicators for Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Students

Background: Appropriate and timely response in urgent situations requires high knowledge, physical and mental preparedness. Since emergency medical technicians are the first professional respondents in the health system, selecting the right people among the candidates to study in this field is very important. Due to the fact that there was a no specific model in the country of Iran to propose t...

A Dynamic Fuzzy Expert System Based on Maintenance Indicators for Service Type Selection of Machinery

Due to the multiplicity of standards and complex rules; maintenance, repair and servicing of machinery could be done only by the fully qualified and proficient experts. Since the knowledge of such experts is not available all times, using expert systems can help to improve the maintenance process. To address this need and the uncertainty of the maintenance process indicators, this research prop...

Evaluation of the insulin administration technique in a tertiary hospital

Background Optimizing glycemic control is important to minimize the risk of macro and microvascular complications in diabetes. Therefore, it is important that patients under insulin treatment know the correct technique for insulin self-administration to ensure proper management. Objective Assess whether patients with longstanding diabetes followed in a tertiary hospital know how to correct self...

Platelet Indices as Useful Indicators of Urinary Tract Infection

Background: The changes of platelet parameters can be a useful index for rapid diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI), since platelet changes are routinely determined through complete blood count (CBC) test. The correlation between platelet indices, included number (PLTs), mean platelet volume (MPV) and platelet distribution width (PDW), which are the indicators of production and function o...

Service Standardization