Background and Objectives: The Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education has introduced clinical gov‌ernance as the accepted model of hospital healthcare improvement. Subsequently, a growing movement for implementing clinical governance in health facilities has emerged. This study aimed to explore the opinions of the relevant experts and executives to provide insight into current challen...

it development and its ease of use have caused the organizations to equip their processing and operations through it. it has been over a century that performance assessment has been a significant issue for management and actually has been performed in different ways. the current study aims to discover the effect of e-mail on performance assessment. therefore, mixed method has been used. the res...

Impaired physical performance is common in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but its assessment can be difficult in routine clinical practice. We compared the timed up and go (TUG) test and other easily applied assessments of physical performance with the 6-minute walk distance (6MWD). In a longitudinal study of comorbidities in COPD, submaximal physical performance was determined i...

Since the 1950s, there has been rapid and extensive change in the way assessment is conducted in medical education. Several new methods of assessment have been developed and implemented over this time and they have focused on clinical skills (taking a history from a patient and performing a physical examination), communication skills, procedural skills, and professionalism. In this paper, we pr...

The aim of the present study was to explore the ability of first-year mathematics major students to use a mathematical theorem to solve a problem through a paper-pencil and an electronic-based dynamic assessment. In this study, a convenient and purposeful sampling method was used. Thirty-five students from a public university in voluntarily participated in this study. Data gathering and analysi...