background: nowadays, quality of patient care is one of the major and important concerns of health care delivery which is extremely dependent on the medical staff. objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of work life (qwl) and quality of patient care. methods: this study was a descriptive-analytic study based on correlation which was conducted i...

background & aim: operation as a stressor can induce physical and psychological negative reactions. considering the anxiety prevalence as the most important sign and symptoms before surgery, on one hand, and the necessity of patients’ mental preparation as the most essential care before surgery, on the other hand, the importance of primary communication of medical centers’ staff would be determ...

This article will discuss the rights of a licensed physician to acquire and retain a hospital medical staff appointment. The focus of the discussion will be the relationship between the independent fee-for-service private practitioner and the community general hospital. The relationship of the organized medical staff to both the hospital and the individual doctor will also be clarified. The hos...

A victory for physicians and patients If you are like me, the recent Minnesota Supreme Court ruling on the Avera Marshall case made you smile. You felt a small thrill of victory upon hearing that the high court sided with physicians by holding that medical staffs are legal entities and that medical staff bylaws constitute a contract between physicians and hospitals. I hope you celebrated this v...

Many current policies and approaches to performance measurement and payment reform focus on individual providers; they risk reinforcing the fragmented care and lack of coordination experienced by patients with serious illness. In this paper we show that Medicare beneficiaries receive most of their care from relatively coherent local delivery systems comprising physicians and the hospitals where...

The attitudes of junior medical staff in a university teaching hospital to requesting postmortem examination were assessed. Following completion of 100 death certificates, autopsy was sought in only 28 cases (and refused in 18). The majority of staff were unaware of the reported benefits of autopsy, despite their inclusion in the local medical handbook and had received no training in how to see...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: use of a computerised system improves the effectiveness and efficiency of a medical record department on condition that managers and medical record staff design it according to needs. methods: the present investigation was an applied-descriptive study. a checklist was provided from professional texts, article...

conclusions according to the present study, the potential barriers to the implementation of pacs in hospitals is the lack of knowledge of the managers and employees of the benefits of pacs system (80%). before the implementation of pacs systems in hospitals it must be considered necessary background to increase knowledge of the workers and managers in this regard, short-term in-service training...