Emergency department use for eye care services and future directions in care.

Patient Engagement and its Evaluation Tools – Current Challenges and Future Directions; Comment on “Metrics and Evaluation Tools for Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organization- and System-Level Decision-Making: A Systematic Review”

Considering the growing recognition of the importance of patient engagement in healthcare decisions, research and delivery systems, it is important to ensure high quality and efficient patient engagement evaluation tools. In this commentary, we will first highlight the definition and importance of patient engagement. Then we discuss the psychometric properties of the patient engagement evaluati...

Future Directions for the Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation (OR4KT) Tool: Response to Recent Commentaries

Examination of the Perception and Experiences of the Patients in the Emergency Departments of Imam Khomeini and Shariati Hospitals Regarding the Quality of Care Provided by the Health Care System

Background: The emergency department (ED) is considered to act as a gate keeper of treatment for patients. Thereby, EDs must achieve customer satisfaction by providing quality services. Patient satisfaction and experiences are important parts of health care quality, but patient expectations are seldom included in quality assessments. Materials and Methods: The objective of this study was to ...

Urgent Eye Care in the UK Increased Demand and Challenges for the Future

Urgent eye care services in the UK have been facing increasing number of attendances over the recent years with hospitals struggling to keep up with the demand. The high number of patients presenting to these services poses great challenges for their sustainability. Inappropriate referrals, the introduction of the European Working Time Directive for junior doctors, the “never refuse” policy of ...

Emergency medical services use for trauma patient transportation to hospital

abstract Introduction: An effort is being made to reduce pre-hospital emergency missions as much as possible without any harm to people and reduce the quality of services. This can be achieved by determining some characters and conditions of patients with their need for emergency services.  The purpose of the present study was to determine the rate of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) use for t...