Profit centers in clinical care departments: an idea whose time has gone.

University-Based Teleradiology in the United States

This article reviews the University of Arizona's more than 15 years of experience with teleradiology and provides an overview of university-based teleradiology practice in the United States (U.S.). In the U.S., teleradiology is a major economic enterprise with many private for-profit companies offering national teleradiology services (i.e., professional interpretation of radiologic studies of a...

Déjà Vu All Over Again: Is Software Engineering REALLY an Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?

Relationship between patient safety culture and professional conduct of nurses in context of clinical governance implementation

Abstract Introduction: Providing proper and qualified nursing care for patients as members of society has turned patient safety to an important issue in quality health care in country. . Objective: This study aims to determine the relationship between patient safety culture and professional behavior of nurses within the framework of the implementation of clinical governance in all health center...

Integrative oncology: the last ten years--a personal retrospectve.

In the last decade, there has been dramatic changes in all areas of integrative patient care. None has been more dramatic than those in the field of cancer care, which has gone from alternative and complementary treatments delivered outside the conventional setting to the integration of many of these approaches into the care of the cancer patient. In many cases, these changes have been driven b...

Spatial Analysis of Access and Transfer of Emergency (Asthma) Patients to Medical Centers; Case Study on District 3 of Tehran, Iran

INTRODUCTION: The short resuscitation time for patients with asthma is one of the most urgent medical conditions with a high importance. In this study, the geographic information system (GIS) is used to analyze the access and transfer of emergency patients to health care centers (resuscitation, specialized, and health care services) to patients with respiratory problems with moderate and acute ...