background and objectives: despite increasing attention toward the employee empowerment, there is little data on cognitive and psychological processes increasing, predicting, and determining the employee empowerment and the organizational variables affecting this construct, particularly in the healthcare context. to help bridging this gap, this study examined the impact of transformational lead...

introduction: continuing education and training of employees significantly affect a hospital’s performance and efficiency, and learning organizations usually exhibit higher efficiency. hence, the objective of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the hospital employees’ continuing education and performance indicators in the teaching hospitals affiliated to tehran’s azad university....

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...

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...

background and objectives: efficient hospital management requires appropriate cost and price strategies. informed decision on costs and prices of healthcare services needs estimation of costs of unit services using microeconomic techniques. there is lack of knowledge and skills for such costing methods in the healthcare sector of developing countries such as iran. this study aims at detail desc...

introduction: it seems that demographic and clinical features of patients referred for myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (mps) is different among populations and healthcare settings. the purpose of the current study is to evaluate the clinical features and risk factors of patients referred for myocardial perfusion scintigraphy to a military hospital. methods: as a cross-sectional study, the cli...

Corresponding authors: Dr. Xingshun Qi Prof. Xiaozhong Guo Department of Gastroenterology General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area Shenyang, 110840 China Phone: +86 24 28897603 Fax: +86 24 28851113 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] 1 Liver Cirrhosis Study Group, Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area, Shenyang, China 2 Department of General...

Submitted by: Mehmet T. Koylu, MD, Gokcen Gokce, MD, Yusuf Uysal, MD, Engin Araz, MD, Omer Orkun, DVM, Ayse Cakmak, DVM, Serpil Nalbantoglu, DVM. From the Department of Ophthalmology (Koylu), Tatvan Military Hospital, Bitlis, and the Department of Ophthalmology (Gokce), Kayseri Military Hospital, Kayseri, and the Departments of Ophthalmology (Uysal), Microbiology (Araz), Gulhane Military Medici...