reducing wastes in the healthcare processes is crucial for developing a high performance health system. adopted from the toyota production system (tps), the lean concept has emerged in recent years as a way of introducing innovative ideas to improve industrial processes. in the context of health care, lean is considered as a continuous improvement model, which provides healthcare organization t...

BACKGROUND Patients with schizophrenia need continuous elective medical care which includes psychiatric treatment, antipsychotic medication and somatic health care. The objective of this study is to assess whether continuous elective psychiatric is associated with less health care costs due to less inpatient treatment. METHODS Data concerning antipsychotic medication and psychiatric and somat...

Due to the changes which may occur in their parameters, systems are usually demonstrated by some subsystems for different conditions. This paper employs Modified Petri Nets (MPN) to model theses subsystems and makes it simple to analyze them. In this method, first, the continuous transfer function is converted to a discrete transfer function and then, by MPN, system is modeled and analyzed. All...

this trial was performed to determine if a continuous low-dose infusion of methylprednisolone is as effective as its bolus of high-dose in reducing inflammatory response. the study was single-center, double-blinded randomized clinical trial and performed in a surgical intensive care unit of an academic hospital. in this study, 72 consecutive patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass g...

AIM This project aimed to develop a Diversity Conceptual Model to support the aged care sector to identify diversity characteristics and associated benefits and disadvantages in order to consider greater equity in policy and practice. METHODS A multi-method approach was used to develop the Diversity Conceptual Model using a literature review, organisation-wide consultation using a questionnai...

a generalization of the known results in fusion frames and $g$-frames theory to continuous fusion frames which defined by m. h. faroughi and r. ahmadi, is presented in this study. continuous resolution of the identity (cri) is introduced, a new family of cri is constructed, and a number of reconstruction formulas are obtained. also, new results are given on the duality of continuous fusion fram...

background: in medical research, dichotomisation of continuous variables is a widespread use approach. however, it has been argued that dichotomisation might be waste of information. the aim of this paper is to review the main methods to dichotomise continuous data, to address practical issues around dichotomisation methods, and to investigate whether dichotomisation is always a bad idea. metho...

conclusions orem’s self-care model is significantly effective in reducing the fatigue of multiple sclerosis patients. objectives to determining the effect of orem’s self-care model on fatigue in multiple sclerosis patients. patients and methods this research involved a clinical trial. sixty-three multiple sclerosis patients at the vice-chancellor in treatment affairs of yasuj university of medi...

Background: Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) is an effective method of ventilation in newborns with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). Using an appropriate nasal skin care protocol is identical to prevention or reduction of nasal skin breakdown in those who receive NCPAP. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of an evidence-based clinical care protocol on nasal sk...