BACKGROUND This study examines, as a part of the European Union funded Adopting Hospital Based Health Technology Assessment (AdHopHTA) project, the results and barriers of collaboration between Finnish hospitals and the national health technology assessment (HTA) agency, Finohta. A joint collaborative HTA program has existed since 2006 between the Finnish hospitals and the national agency. ME...

OBJECTIVES To describe how Lithuania is attempting to develop health technology assessment (HTA) structures. METHODS The case study of the history of development of HTA in Lithuania is presented. RESULTS Historical steps of HTA development are as follows: in 1993, a few conferences on HTA; eight people were trained in Sweden at SBU; the book First Steps of HTA in Lithuania (5) was issued to...

introduction: european foundation for quality management has designed the efqm model to determine the rate of organization development and excellence and construct ways to achieve organizational excellence. this model is used to compare the current situation of each organization with an ideal organization. the aim of this study was to determine the performance self-assessment scores in selected...

extractin any era to the present era, risk of changes of family and their adverse effects are not studied and also these adverse effects are now more than any time. statistics show that each year the number of divorce will increase and there is the risk for many families. so, after the second world war ii the rate of divorce is not lower from average of 400,000 cases. the result of research in ...

background: the main purpose of this study was to assess the factorial validity and reliability of the iranian versions of the personality and behavior system scales (49 items) of the ahdq ( the adolescent health and development questionnaire ) and interrelations among them based on jessor's pbt (problem behavior theory) . methods: a multi-staged approach was employed. the cross-cultural adapta...

aim and background: “need assessment” is considered the process of evaluation of needs in a specific domain, which is fundamental for quality improvement of health education and research. as suicide is one the most important problem in public health, it would be expected that all psychiatric residents should have adequate knowledge and skills and play in different roles in this field. this stud...

introduction: assessment tools of academic achievement in the field of surgery have always been received considerable attention. the issue that has received less attention is that which one of these methods has higher efficiency to cover appropriately educational objectives in surgical groups. this survey aimed to evaluate the results of three examinations (including osce, in-group educational ...

background: management of intracranial aneurysms has made debates about the best treatment modality in recent years. the aim of this study was to compare the interventional outcomes between two groups of patients, one treated with endovascular coiling and the other treated with surgical clipping. methods: this prospective study included 48 patients with intracranial aneurysms who underwent endo...

abstract background: application of a reliable and authentic behavioral tool for measuring patients’ pain, hospitalized in intensive care units who are not able to establish relationship, is needed severely. therefore, this study is conducted with the aim of validating critical care pain observation tool (cpot) in patients hospitalized in surgical wards. materials and methods: cpot was first tr...

background: new technologies using hazardous materials usually have certain risks. it is more serious when the technology is supposed to be applied in a large scale and become widely used by many people. the objective of this paper was to evaluate the risk of vapor cloud explosion in a hydrogen production process. methods: potential hazards were identified using the conventional hazard identifi...