in recent years a variety of system models for providing community based health care services for the elderly has been envisioned and implemented in the developed countries which meet the special care needs of different groups of elders. in iran as a developing country, a considerable percentage of old people live in the society need to receive specialized care and health services. in order to ...

the aim of this review article is describing a research on spiritual and religious interventions in iran. an integrative review was conducted to determine the state of the science in iran. iranmedex, scientific information database, irandoc, noormags, magiran and google scholar were searched to find articles published in peer-reviewed journals from august 2002 to august 2012. a qualitative appr...

in 2010, the united states adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the affordable care act (aca). implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. the controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most u.s. cit...

This paper deals with the service performance analysis and improvement using discrete event simulation has been used. The simulation of the health care has been done by arena master development 14-version software. The performance measurement for this study are patients output, service rate, service efficiency and it is directly related to waiting time of patients in each service station, work ...

introduction: patients' satisfaction (ps) is one of the important indicators of emergency care quality and outcomes of health care services. some researchers believe that improve the work processes and hospital quality are not possible without caring to comments, requirements, expectations, and satisfaction of patients. the percent study was aimed to assess the emergency department (ed) ps of p...