introduction: establishing improvement in every organization requires assessment of organizational performance, planning and goal-setting to improve the performance. despite remarkable progresses occurred in recent years on designing the frameworks and performance evaluation systems, many organizations still rely on traditional criteria. therefore, according to the importance of performance eva...

intrbackground and objectives: good medical nutrition therapy (mnt) is crucial to inpatients' health and treatment, and is part of routine hospital cares. surgery ward is a highly danger-prone section in any hospital. the present study was conducted for a proactive risk analysis of nutrition and food distribution in mashhad qaem hospital’ women’s surgery ward in 2013 through health care fa...

Background and Objectives: The large contribution of hospitals to the function and expenditures of the healthsector makes their constant monitoring and evaluation inevitable to improve the overall performance of the health system. Built on that, the present study aimed to evaluate the trend of performance of hospitals affiliated with the public hospitals (in Guilan Province, Iran) affiliated wi...

BACKGROUND The left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) has prognostic and therapeutic utility after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Although LVEF assessment is a key performance measure among AMI patients, contemporary rates of in-hospital assessment and its association with therapy use have not been well characterized. METHODS AND RESULTS We examined rates of in-hospital LVEF assessment...

Background and Objectives: Patient readmission is an important criterion in performance evaluation of healthcare settings. Identifying the causes of the readmissions would help the policymakers in designing strategies for efficient management of health facilities. This stud aimed to explore factors contributing to readmission by sampling from an Iranian hospital. Methods: Clinical records of ...

BACKGROUND Recently, there has been considerable effort to promote the use of health information technology (HIT) in order to improve health care quality. However, relatively little is known about the extent to which HIT implementation is associated with hospital patient care quality. We undertook this study to determine the association of various HITs with: hospital quality improvement (QI) pr...