Introduction: Improving quality of care is one of the challenges in health care services. In this regard, human factor is one of the important factors that affect the quality of care. The aim of this study was to assess nurses’ clinical performance in Critical Care Units (CCU) in teaching and non-teaching hospitals non-teaching hospitals of Qazvin city based on the Synergy Model. Materials & Me...

OBJECTIVES (1) To determine whether pre-operative assessment carried out by an appropriately trained nurse (ATN) is equivalent in quality to that carried out by a pre-registration house officer (PRHO). (2) To assess whether pre-assessments carried out by ATNs and PRHOs are equivalent in terms of cost. (3) To determine whether assessments carried out by ATNs are acceptable to patients. (4) To in...

Integrated Care Plans, or Anticipated Recovery Pathways, embrace quality and efficiency concepts. They allow multidisciplinary input on patient care planning. Pathways are now being developed hospital-wide. Discusses their development and implementation.

BACKGROUND Considering the controversial results of previous reports on awareness of bill of patients' rights in different regions, as well as the fact that no report is available on the awareness of patients of their rights in teaching hospitals of Sari, we conducted the present study. MATERIALS & METHODS This is a cross-sectional Study conducted in teaching hospitals of Sari in 2011. The st...

OBJECTIVES To explore whether coping strategies and general anxiety are associated with pregnancy-specific stress (PSS) and how much of variance of PSS is explained with these variables. METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted at two teaching hospitals between November 2013 and December 2015. Total 190 pregnant women (60 women at 6-13-weeks of gestation, 60 at 13-26 weeks, and 70 at 27-...

The microbiological pattern of early onset neonatal sepsis (EONS) is different from late onset sepsis and is associated with several peri-natal risk factors. In view of the high mortality associated with this condition septic screening is carried out and empirical treatment with antibiotics started in the presence of two or more of these risk factors, resulting in a large number of babies recei...

OBJECTIVE Clinical Governance (CG) program has been raised in Iran in order to improve the quality of clinical care. The purpose of this study is to investigate the awareness of clinical governance program among clinical staff working in selected teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. METHODS To investigate the CG awareness, a cross-sectional survey was conducted among 345 clinical staff working...

BACKGROUND Late presentation to hospital after onset of stroke affects management and outcomes of the patients. This study aimed to determine the factors associated with time taken to present to hospital after the onset of acute stroke symptoms. METHODS A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted at two teaching hospitals in Zimbabwe. Participants included patients admitted with stroke ...

OVER the last few years the nature of the work of the general physician in the teaching hospital has changed considerably. His exact functions are no longer clear and it is not certain whether the general physician has a future in the large general hospital. The reasons for this include1. The growth of sub-specialities in medicine. These tend to attract direct referrals from general practitione...