background: health care systems in rural areas face numerous challenges in meeting the community’s needs and adequate attention has not been paid to this problem. the aim of this study was to describe the outcomes of health care process in rural society. materials and methods: twenty-six participants including twenty-one rural health care providers and five clients were selected according to pu...

BACKGROUND The incorrect use of medications may result from improper prescribing. The poor interface and design of computerised physician order entry (CPOE) systems may contribute. To improve the quality of electronic drug prescription, ePrescribing, there is a need for an evaluation model that is able to assess the quality of the CPOE, focusing on usability. OBJECTIVE To develop and apply a...

Health systems can be improved appreciably by making them more efficient and accountable, and enhancing the quality of care, without necessarily requiring additional resources. Australia, like other nations, cannot escape making difficult health care choices in the context of resource scarcity, and the challenge of delivering quality care, informed by best available evidence, to an ageing popul...

BACKGROUND Since 1999, prison health services and health authorities have been jointly responsible for assessing the health care needs of the prison population. To facilitate this process, the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Birmingham developed a toolkit for carrying out a health care needs assessment of the prison population. METHODS This paper describes th...

I wish to inform you of the release of the draft 'Western Rock Lobster Fishery Ecological Risk Assessment 2005 Report – July 2005' for a three-week public consultation period. Please find attached the report for your consideration. This report provides background on the western rock lobster fishery, its governance, the reporting requirements for the Ecologically Sustainable Development process ...

BACKGROUND The single assessment process (SAP) for older people, introduced in England across health and social care agencies from April 2004, aimed at improving assessment processes. We examined the impact of this policy in terms of the reliability of needs identification within statutory social services assessments. METHODS An observational study compared the accuracy of needs identificatio...

This article presents a process for an integrated policy analysis that combines risk assessment and benefit-cost analysis. This concept, which explicitly combines the two types of related analyses, seems to contradict the long-accepted risk analysis paradigm of separating risk assessment and risk management since benefit-cost analysis is generally considered to be a part of risk management. Yet...

Securing the environment of care is a challenging and continuous effort for most healthcare security managers, who face unique challenges in balancing the open campus environment with the protection needs of the hospital's patients, employees, and other assets. By conducting a comprehensive risk assessment, hospital security managers can prioritize identified risks, develop an effective hospita...

Best practice dictates that security requirements be based on risk assessments; however, simplistic risk assessments that result in lists of risks or sets of scenarios do not provide sufficient information to prioritize requirements when faced with resource constraints (e.g., time, money). Multi-attribute risk assessments provide a convenient framework for systematically developing quantitative...

Since the beginning of the 21 century, the learning process has changed from being repetitive to a new form of learning based on understanding, independency, learners’ empowerment and skills improvement. As a main part of this learning process assessment is no more considered to discriminate between students, rather than it is used to enhance students learning and encourage them for further pro...