Background & purpose: Since 2005, a reform known as Rural Insurance and Family Medicine Scheme has introduced to primary health care network in Iran in rural areas and small towns. The content of the reform implies a substantial change in those aspects of health centers that mainly could be categorized as structural quality. Although, this is the requirement of all health care providers, they a...

background:premarital counseling equips couples with information about all aspects ofsexuality and the related health issues. this study was aimed to assess the quality of premarital counseling services in health care centers in tabriz. methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted on 236 randomly selected women from premarital counseling centers in tabriz was carried out and a self-structured...

a survey on quality of life in hemodialysis patient care givers h habibzadeh1, msc h jafarizadeh2, msc y mohammadpoor3, bsc p kiani4, bsc kh lak5, bsc a bahrechi6, bsc received: 22 april, 2009 accepted: 27 july, 2009 abstract background & aims: quality of life is a major concept in family, and changes in health care systems needs families to take care of their chronic patient at home. the prese...

BACKGROUND Stroke registries contribute to the conduct of clinical research and to the assessment of health care quality control. Efforts to compare clinical outcomes and quality indicators between centers are dependent on standardized data elements, but it is unknown how stroke physicians define common data elements, such as hypertension or diabetes, when collecting data for registries at thei...

Background and Objectives: The increasing pressure on health systems to improve quality of health care, require them to develop novel conceptual framework and indices aimed at evaluating decision variables in the contemporary complex community. Customer Quality is a newly introduced concept addressing capability of patients in contribution to healthcare process and cooperation with healthcare p...