a better understanding of factors influencing quality of medical service can pinpoint better strategies for quality assurance in medical services. this study aimed to identify factors affecting the quality of medical services provided by iranian physicians.exploratory in-depth individual interviews were conducted with sixty-four physicians working in various medical institutions in iran.individ...

introduction: today, many organizations attempt to fully develop in gradual evolution of their processes. pcmm is one of the models which focus on improving organizational human capabilities. this model is applied to continually increase people's ability to attract, develop, motivate, organize and retain the skills. in this study, pcmm was used to investigate organizational maturity needs in me...

scientific educational-research festivals are regularly designed programmes in which one or more educational or research areas are discussed. every festival is usually focused on a specific academic domain, and relevant activities in one specific time period (e.g. one year) are investigated. these festivals provide an appropriate situation for the scientific competition among educational and re...

effect of educational program bases on transtheoretical model constructs on cognitive and beharioral processes for smoking cessation     hekmatpoue d [1] , ouroji ma [2] , shamsi m [3] *     received: 3 jul , 2013 accepted: 14 sep , 2013   abstract   background & aims: smoking as the leading cause of diseases in the world is increasing . smoking cessetation can prevent the death, but the rate o...

Medical errors are now recognized as a major cause of untimely deaths or other adverse medical outcomes. To reduce the number of medical errors, the Medical Safety Project at the University of Massachusetts is exploring using a process programming language to define medical processes, a requirements elicitation framework for specifying important medical properties, and finite-state verification...