Background: The occurrence of medical errors in therapeutic centers is important due to its critical nature in terms of health, patient safety, and notable clinical and economic outcomes. One of the solutions to manage this problem in the field of nursing is error reporting and recording. Error reporting, on one hand, improves patient care quality and safety and; on the other hand, provides val...

Organizations need to employ committed individuals for their survival and development as well as to achieve their short- and long-term goals. In account of this, successful organizations are those with committed managers and staff. Therefore, it is important to investigate the factors influencing organizational commitment. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of psycholog...

Background: The hospitals' reliance on insurer organizations' resources is increasing due to the growing number of insured persons. However, a relatively large share of these revenues cannot be collected for various reasons and is considered as hospital deductions from revenue. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the causes of hospital deductions from revenue and strategies to reduce them in...

Background & Objectives: Around 50 to 80% of total expense of health and therapeutic sector is allocated to hospitals. Thus, quality promotion through application of productivity mechanisms can be effective in dynamism of the hospitals. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine the productivity mechanisms in supporting units of the hospital that was conducted in Arak in 2005. Materials &...

This study is aimed to explore the structural relationships among the factors affecting the employees' voice. To do so, by reviewing the literature a series of factors influencing the occurrence of organizational voice was identified and then the opinions of 15 senior and middle managers and academic professors about the relationships between these factors were examined. Finally, data were anal...