public hospitals can privatize management activities by contracting with a private organization or person to perform the work. management contract is a method which uses private sector for major government projects like hospitals. this review study evaluated management contract conditions in selected countries. we focused on services under contract, different forms of management contract, metho...

background : the purpose of this study was to explore nurses’ attitudes to the barriers of patient education as a right for getting information based on work situation of nurses, educational facilities in hospitals, and patients’ situation. methods : the study was conducted using a cross-sectional design. the populations consisted of 240 nurses affiliated in the educational hospitals. the data ...

conclusions hospital managers need to discover better ways to promote safety and health programs for their staff according to nurses’ area of work and their type of units. they should also encourage greater levels of participation in safety-enhancing initiatives in the hospital’s ethical climate, especially in the areas of nurses’ perceptions of their physician colleagues, and for nurses with a...

on the last wednesday of every year iranians celebrate the sanctity of fire in the annual festival of chaharshanbeh soori. each year many cases of firecracker-related injuries (fri) are reported during this festival. the aim of this study was to assess the pattern of injuries and the frequency of disabilities during this period. in 2011, a cross-sectional study was conducted at the emergency de...

conclusions: this study highlighted the need to establish antimicrobial resistance surveillance networks for p. aeruginosa to determine the appropriate empirical treatment regimens. the high prevalence of multidrug resistance and production of esbls in p. aeruginosa isolates confirms the necessity of protocols considering these issues in the hospitals. results: the resistance against broad-spect...

headache is a common symptom that constitutes a major health problem to all countries in the world. this study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of migraine and tension -type headaches(tth), its associated occupational risk factors among shiraz hospitals staffs, and to report on clinical characteristics of migraine and tth with using the international headache society (ihs) diagnosis cri...