ActiveTheatre - A Collaborative, Event-Based Capture and Access System for the Operating Theatre

تأثیر مدیریت کیفیت بر کاهش کسورات بخش اعمال جراحی بیمارستان ولیعصر(عج) یک مطالعه اقدام پژوهی مشارکتی

Background: The health system of Iran is suffering from resources shortage. The health insurance companies (payers) do not confirm all hospitals’ claims (bills) and as a result do not reimburse them completely. Decreasing the amount of these deductions helps healthcare managers to use their resources efficiently. This study aimed to examine the impact of a quality management model on reducing t...

Use of Semantic Similarity and Web Usage Mining to Alleviate the Drawbacks of User-Based Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems

  One of the most famous methods for recommendation is user-based Collaborative Filtering (CF). This system compares active user’s items rating with historical rating records of other users to find similar users and recommending items which seems interesting to these similar users and have not been rated by the active user. As a way of computing recommendations, the ultimate goal of the user-ba...

تأثیر مدیریت کیفیت بر درآمد بخش اعمال جراحی بیمارستان: گزارش کوتاه

Background: Hospitals are dealing with unlimited demands and limited resources. Hospital managers should use appropriate strategies to improve quality of services, enhance patients’ satisfaction and increase financial resources. This study aimed to examine the impact of quality management. Methods: A participatory action research was used for the intervention on income of operating theatre in ...

Evaluating an Electronic Database in an Operating Theatre Situation Can benefits be realised through the migration of paper based medical data capture to electronic systems in an Operating Theatre Situation?

Feasibility work to inform trial design: using collaborative methods for efficient real-time data collection in the operating theatre

Background RCTs in surgery can be difficult to design, meaning pretrial feasibility work is necessary. This may involve surveying views of surgeons; however, response rates can be poor and findings unrepresentative. An alternative realtime data collection may be challenging in the operating theatre environment. Recently, trainee surgeons have formed ‘research collaboratives’ to undertake multi-...