background according to the increase of patients with coronary artery disease, paying more attention to the quality of life seems to be important. one of the factors affecting the quality of life is spiritual health. spiritual health as one of the main aspects of health is usually ignored. objectives the current study was performed to determine the relationship between spiritual health and qual...

background: quality of care for patients might be increased costs of care reduced as a result of  standards implementation in intensive care units because it prevent managerial errors and reduce preventable deaths in this sensible unit in hospitals. the main goal of the icus can be achieved by proper financial resource allocation, monitoring standards, fixing old or non standard physical struct...

Neutropenia is a common complication of bone marrow dysfunction following chemotherapy in haematology inpatients [1,2]. Many factors put these patients at increased risk of life threatening infection including compromised mucosal barriers secondary to chemotherapy or radiotherapy and multiple intravenous access devises, in addition to neutropenia. In such patients fever may be the only indicato...

BACKGROUND Laboratory tests can be an important source of blood loss in hospitals, especially for newborns and patients in intensive care. The aim of this study was to quantify blood loss for laboratory diagnostic tests in a large number of patients in a teaching hospital. METHODS We estimated blood loss by multiplying the number and volumes of sampling tubes collected from 2654 adult inpatie...

background: infant mortality rate is reported 3.18 in 1000 births in iran. international organizations such as world health organization (who) and united nations children's fund (unicef) consider applicable standards essential for providing effective health services in hospitals and health centers. therefore, it is essential to create national care standards for neonatal intensive care units (n...

Background & Aims: Exposure Keratitis (EK) is a common problem in critically ill patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). We conducted exposure keratitis in mechanical ventilatory patients in the intensive care unit of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Urmia for five years. Materials & Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study, the records of the patients were taken from the medi...