objective: to develop decision-support tools to identify patients experiencing sudden cardiac arrest (sca). methods: eighty calls related to sca were content analyzed, and the contextual patterns that emerged were organized into a checklist. two researchers independently analyzed the recorded calls and compared their findings. eighteen dispatchers scored 20 cases (which included sca and non-sca...

background prehospital management of gunshot-wounded (gw) patients influences injury-induced morbidity and mortality. objectives to evaluate prehospital management to gw patients emphasizing the protocol of patient transfer to appropriate centers. patients and methods this prospective study, included all gw patients referred to four major, level-i hospitals in mashhad, iran. we evaluated demogr...

in this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing ronald andersen’s behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of kovacs et al. on patients travelling to hungary for orthopedic treatment. finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient ...

Health information technology can have positive impacts on healthcare delivery and is utilised for various applications. Patient-centred services are a special kind of health information technology and are designed to cater to pa tients' needs. They manage personal medical information and utilise such information to offer personalised, advant ageous services as well as information for patients....

health tourism is a form of travel in addition to recreation, leisure, comfort, health and medical care as well. this paper aims to assess the state of health tourism in the city of mashhad, from the perspective of foreign tourists, identify weaknesses in health tourism and health tourism adsorption process and provide medical services to foreign patients in mashhad compilation.research methods...

introduction: the health information system of hospitals depends on their medical records. therefore, the detailed documentation, and maintenance of patient records can lead to timely diagnosis and effective treatment of diseases in any country, and should be included in the strategic program for disease control. this study aimed to determine the status of the documentation of tuberculosis pati...

introduction: one of the most fundamental duties of him professionals is the duty to maintain health information about their patients. this duty is imposed explicitly by state and federal statuted and regulations as well as by accreditation standards. also one of the most important responsibilities him professionals have is keeping confidential health information out of the hands of unauthorize...

the present research provides quantitative and descriptive data of the information service capabilities available at thehran university libraries. these include access to information resources, availability of various indexes, printed catalogs, computer terminals, access modes, working hours, membership requirements, borrowing pattens. the findings presented in form of tables, were analyzed bas...