Background and Objectives: The large contribution of hospitals to the function and expenditures of the healthsector makes their constant monitoring and evaluation inevitable to improve the overall performance of the health system. Built on that, the present study aimed to evaluate the trend of performance of hospitals affiliated with the public hospitals (in Guilan Province, Iran) affiliated wi...

Objective: This study is intended to advance patient safety by demonstrating the effectiveness of coupling surveillance report performance feedback with evidence-based educational materials and other communications that help hospitals identify priorities and methods for medical injury prevention. Methods: Medical injury surveillance findings are reported semiannually to hospitals to support the...

background: person-organization fit is an effective factor for recruiting, selection, and retention of human resources in organizations. objective: this study examined the correlation between person-organization fit and performance indicators used in healthcare in the hospitals affiliated with qazvin university of medical sciences (qums). methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was cond...

introduction: due to increased costs of health sector, much effort has been done to compare the performance of hospitals and measure their efficiency in recent years. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative efficiency of public and private hospitals in qom during 2007 using data envelopment analysis (dea) approach. methods: this was an applied and analytic study. the study popula...

results doctor sheikh hospital has been shifting variably between the second and third quadrants; hashemi nejad hospital was moved to the third quadrant in 2006 to 2011 and finally to the first quadrant in 2011. the status of shariati hospital and omolbanin hospital remained constant in the first and second quadrants during these six years. finally, the khatamolanbiya hospital was moved from th...

introduction: self-assessment in healthcare is inevitable, like in all other sections. scarce resources, necessity of performance refining, vitality of provided services and quality of services are evidence for necessity of having a proper system of self-assessment of performance in this area. hence, the purpose of present study was to study areas of improvement based on european foundation for...

introduction: medical records department (mrd) is important for evaluating, planning and prioritizing health care services. the major aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of the mrds of hospitals using multi-criteria decision-making approach in the selected hospitals of isfahan city, iran. methods: this was an analytical and cross-sectional study that was conducted in spring 2008 i...