Quality in healthcare: asking the right questions. The next ten years: the role of CAM in the "quality cure".

Are We Asking All the Right Questions About Quality of Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Diffusion of Innovation in Mental Health Policy Adoption: What Should We Ask about the Quality of Policy and the Role of Stakeholders in this Process?; Comment on “Cross-National Diffusion of Mental Health Policy”

In his recent study, Gordon Shen analyses a pertinent question facing the global mental health research and practice community today; that of how and why mental health policy is or is not adopted by national governments. This study identifies becoming a World Health Organization (WHO) member nation, and being in regional proximity to countries which have adopted a mental health policy as suppor...

مراقبت ارزش محور و ضرورت ارزیابی اقتصادی خدمات پرستاری

Economic evaluation is an invaluable and important tool in healthcare decision- and policy-making. The volume-based paradigm has been a prominent tool to evaluate healthcare economy for consecutive decades. In this approach, the main focus is on volume of treated patients alongside to reduce healthcare costs. Despite this view and during recent years, there was a dramatic rising in healthcare c...

The Quality of Books, Questions and Teaching Method of Self-Learning in Continuing Medical Education: The Viewpoints of Self-learning Program's Participants in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: Self-learning is an appropriate method for continuing medical education programs and has been used in many countries. In order to evaluate new method of self-learning in CME (Continuing Medical Education) programs, this study was conducted to determine the viewpoints of CME participants about the quality of books, questions, and teaching method of self-learning in Isfahan Universi...

Customer Quality: A Self-reporting Survey among Angiography Patients

Background and Objectives: The increasing pressure on health systems to improve quality of health care, require them to develop novel conceptual framework and indices aimed at evaluating decision variables in the contemporary complex community. Customer Quality is a newly introduced concept addressing capability of patients in contribution to healthcare process and cooperation with healthcare p...