medication errors have important effects on increased length of hospitalization, increased mortality and costs. we assessed the incidence of medication errors and characterize the error types in an emergency department in a large teaching hospital in tehran. we also investigated the effect of emergency department pharmacists on patient safety with regard to recovery of potentially harmful medic...

european foundation for quality management (efqm) model is a widely used quality management system (qms) worldwide, including iran. current study aims to verify the quality assessment results of iranian national program for hospital evaluation (inphe) based on those of efqm.this cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012 on a sample of emergency departments (eds) affiliated with tehran univers...

in western countries such as united states data from 2002-2006 showed that at least 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (tbi) each year. of those individuals, about 52,000 die, 275,000 are hospitalized, and 1.365 million are treated and released from an emergency department. in 2000, direct medical costs and indirect costs such as lost productivity of totaled an estimated $76.5 ...

background and objectives: the iranian ministry of health and medical education (mohme) has obligated health settings to follow the reference guidelines developed by the ministry in implementing of emergency department triage system. the present study aimed at auditing the compliance of emergency department triage system in shahid madani hospital, in terms of compliance with mohme guideline, an...

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results sixty two patients had dka. the comparison of apache ii score among two groups of the patients did not show any significant difference (p = 0.597). there was no suitable cut-off point for apache ii score to predict dka. conclusions apache ii score cannot be applied in the predicting of dka in hyperglycemic patients admitted in ed. objectives the present study aims to evaluate the effica...

conclusions the state of observed radiation protection principles was relatively in the weak level in the studied radiology departments especially in facilities such as ventilation system, radiography entrance, and darkroom situation. more important reason was usage changing of sections as radiology billet from related organizations. results the mean of radiation protection in the studied radio...

conclusions our findings support a number of statistically significant positive associations between air pollutants and the number of ed visits for headache and migraine. background associations between ambient air pollution and emergency department (ed) visits for headache and migraine were examined in a multi-city study during the period of april 2004 to december 2011 in nine cities across on...

Background In recent years, ketamine has been the most used sedative in Emergency Department (ED) procedures for pain management. Therefore, this study evaluated ketamine associated vomiting (KAV) in children requiring sedation. Materials and Methods This is a prospective, randomized, and open trial study carried out on children of ages 3 months to 13 years requiring sedation for medical diagn...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: medical records department (mrd) is an important source for evaluating and planning of care services. the main goal of this research was performance evaluation of medical records department with balanced scorecard (bsc) approach in a hospital of isfahan, iran. methods: this research was a descriptive, cross s...