Continuity of care has been regarded as being fundamental to primary care and has been linked to improve quality of care. In this editorial, I will explore the impact of continuity of care on the quality of care and the mechanism of how quality helps to sustain continuity; recommendations for policy makers in the health care system to improve quality by promoting continuity will be outlined at ...

As the United States enters a new era of value-based payment heavy in emphasis on primary care measurement, careful examination of selected measures and their potential impact on outcomes and vulnerable populations is essential. Applying a theoretical model of health care quality as a coding matrix, we used a directed content analysis approach to categorize individual Merit Based Incentive Paym...

to determine the coverage rate, timeliness and quality of ante-natal care in rural areas under the coverage of health houses in west azerbaijan province, 30 health houses (hh) were randomly selected out of 731 hh in the province. in each hh, using the method of lot quality assurance sampling (lqas) 28 women having recently born babies was selected. data were collected using check-list for facil...

background: health-care-associated infections are a major threat to the safety of patient care. control of such problem is a major criterion for hospital accreditation. this study was aimed to determine the developing use of chemical (class 6 products) and biological indicators in tabriz district hospitals since 1997 to 2011. methods: we conducted this time-trend interventional study with all o...

abstract background and objectives: study of clinical competence in nursing helps determine the quality of health care delivered to patients. given the priority of observance of principles over caretaking and necessity of spirituality existence at the core of health care provision, this study was conducted to investigate clinical competence and its relationship with professional ethics and spir...

introduction: the success of a health system depends on the accessibility and the quality of health services it provides. one major indicator of service quality is peoples satisfaction from the service. in this article, healthcare availability and satisfaction of people in 17th zone of tehran is investigated. methods: population research center has performed a survey in 17th zone of tehran to i...

background and aim: job satisfaction represents individuals' positive or negative attitude towards their occupation. job satisfaction is of high significance in health care field and could affects the quality of patients' health care and satisfaction. every organization should pay considerable attention to job satisfaction and performance and continually monitor these indices. therefo...