background: this study aimed to evaluate the design of emergency departâ­ments regarding to the patients’ and staff's privacy, confidentiality and facilities in genâ­eral teaching hospitals. methods: emergency departments of all the general teaching hospitals of shahid beâ­heshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran were evaluated in 2007 through both direct observation and interview ...

Risk scoring models assume that confidentiality evaluation is based on user estimations. Confidentiality evaluation incorporates the impacts of various factors including systems' technical configuration, on the processes relating to users' confidentiality. The assumption underlying this research is that system users are not capable of estimating systems' confidentiality since they lack the know...