introduction: recently, the accreditation program has been used increasingly by an emphasis on patient safety. in iran, efforts have been made to establish the accreditation program. in 2011, it replaced previous standards of traditional evaluation system. as the impact of accreditation plan need internal self assessment against minimal standards, this study aimed to survey the readiness of sel...

The Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 established the International Joint Commission (IJC) as an organization designed to resolve disputes and to avoid conflicts over transboundary environmental matters. Article IV of the Treaty provides the provision that neither party shall cause pollution that would injure the health or property of the other side. In 1972, the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreemen...

To the Editor: Our team wishes to share with the readers of a medical physics journal our experience of establishment of a two-year radiation oncology physics postgraduate training program. Our purpose of sharing this experience is to encourage medical physics colleagues to come up with innovative ideas and to take up this challenge of improving the quality of medical physics training in order ...

AIM To assess health care delivery system in the State of Qatar and audit it according to the Joint Commission International (JCI) standard. METHODS The data for this retrospective descriptive study were taken from the Annual Health Report of the National Health Authority and Hamad Medical Corporation and various additional sources like World Health Organization reports, Annual Report of Saud...

BACKGROUND Informed consent is an important part of the patients' rights and hospitals are assigned to obtain informed consent before any diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Obtaining an informed consent enables patients to accept or reject their care or treatments and prevent future contentions among patients and medical staff. METHODS This survey was carried out during 2011-2. We assessed...

BACKGROUND/AIM The present study aimed to assess the VAP rate and to identify VAP prevention activities in public sector hospitals situated in the Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia (SA). MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, the VAP data from 13 public sector hospitals were collected from January to December 2013 and analyzed using SPSS 16. RESULTS The overall VAP rate in Makkah Re...

⁎ Correspondence to: K.R. Murphy, The University of Ne Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Tel.: +61 2 9385 5017; fax: +61 2 9313 8624. ⁎⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 443 482 2227; fax: E-mail addresses: [email protected] (K.R. Murphy), 1 International Joint Commission, Great Lakes Regio Windsor, ON, Canada N9A 6T3. 2 California State Lands Commission, Marine Invasiv Ave., Su...