background and objectives: hospital bed utilization is influenced by various factors, which may be categorized into patient-related, physician-related, and administration-related issues. it could be argued that the causes of inappropriate hospital bed utilization would be perceived differently by the clinicians and the patients. given the unique role of clinical practitioners in quality of care...

background iran has a widespread diagnostics and clinical support services (dcss) network that plays a crucial role in providing diagnostic and clinical support services to both inpatient and outpatient care. however, very little is known on the application of quality assurance (qa) policies in dcss units. this study explores the extent of application of eleven qa strategies in dcss units withi...

introduction: due to the importance of electronic medical record (emr) in the quality of health care services, checking the readiness of hospitals to implement it is a vital step to define success or failure of the electronic medical record in the first place. the aim of this study was to evaluate the readiness of shiraz teaching hospitals to implement electronic medical record. method: this st...

background: the planners and managers in health policy sector are responsible for policy making and planning of the health structure of a country. therefore, they need to have access to reasonable and accurate information. knowledge of managers about the applications of hospital information system is therefore of high importance. this study aimed to survey the knowledge of managers of hamadan u...

OBJECTIVES Publicly available hospital quality reports seek to inform consumers of important healthcare quality and affordability attributes, and may inform consumer decision-making. To understand how much consumers search for such information online on one Internet search engine, whether they mention such information in social media and how positively they view this information. SETTING AND ...