conclusions: the patients' waiting times and the number of patients waiting to receive services in both shifts could be reduced by using multitasking persons and reallocating them to the time-consuming stage of filling prescriptions, using queuing theory and simulation techniques. background: hospital pharmacy is responsible for controlling and monitoring the medication use process and ensures ...

background: person-organization fit is an effective factor for recruiting, selection, and retention of human resources in organizations. objective: this study examined the correlation between person-organization fit and performance indicators used in healthcare in the hospitals affiliated with qazvin university of medical sciences (qums). methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was cond...

background: in this study, we determine the vector competence of musca domestica with reference to the transmis­sion of susceptible and resistance bacterial strains in hospitals and slaughter house in sanandaj city, west iran. methods: totally 908 houseflies were collected to isolate bacteria from their external body based on standard proce­dures.antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed ...

self-confidence is a glorious feature of an effective administrator. their main goal is the organizational success. therefore, we approached this idea by evaluating the self-confidence of nursing administration in tehran university of medical sciences (tums) teaching hospitals and its relation to vocational satisfaction of the staff.in a cross-sectional study, we interviewed 200 nursing adminis...

healthcare workers suffer from work-related or occupational stress. this can lead to severe distress, burnout or physical illness, and finally to decrease quality of work life and services provision. nurses must be aware of retential stressors, because they add to the cumulative effect of other stressful events. holmes and rahe both found a relationship between life change unit as stressors and...

introduction: patient safety culture is an important part of improvement in the safety of health care. knowing its present status is required for development of safety culture. the present study aimed to evaluate the current status of patient safety culture in hospitals of three central provinces of iran. method: the present cross-sectional study was performed in teaching hospitals of tehran, a...

conclusions overall, the results derived from these studies indicated that hospital safety levels in most of the surveyed hospitals were moderate. although the situation in hospitals is not critical, there is a need to plan and take appropriate measures to improve the safety level of the hospitals. results hospital preparedness in disaster was evaluated in three dimensions: structural, non-stru...

introduction: electronic medical records has of practically paved the way to centralize information without being worried about physical space. although iran, from technological point of view, is able to compete with developed countries, it has fallen because of medical records technology. in this study, hospital information systems in educational hospitals in tehran province were compared with...

introduction: one of the types of hospital management information systems is decision support information system (dsis). this system uses decision-making models and databases for preparing specific information to support their semi-structured or unstructured decisions. the present study aimed to design a decision dsis model for board of trustees of ayatollah kashani hospital, shahrekord, iran. ...

introduction: due to increased costs of health sector, much effort has been done to compare the performance of hospitals and measure their efficiency in recent years. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative efficiency of public and private hospitals in qom during 2007 using data envelopment analysis (dea) approach. methods: this was an applied and analytic study. the study popula...