background todays, methadone and buprenorphine maintaining treatment (mmt/bmt) is considered an effective method for opioid-dependent patients. it seems that lack of enough information among health care specialists including cardiologists about such treatments could result in some problems for patients such as relapse into addiction. objectives this study aimed to investigate knowledge and atti...

background and purpose: hand hygiene is a low-cost، convenient measure recommended to all health care providers to prevent nosocomial infections. health care staff commonly neglect the importance of hand washing at workplace. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of involuntary motivational factors on hand hygiene compliance byhealth care providers. methods: this descriptive analytical study ...

The purpose of this article is to introduce a new scheme for robust multivariate ranking by making use of a not so familiar notion called monotonicity. Under this scheme, as in the case of classical outward ranking, we get an increasing sequence of regions diverging away from a central region (may be a single point) as nucleus. The nuclear region may be deened as the median region.

OBJECTIVES To identify key barriers to effective engagement of primary health care (PHC) providers and families in promoting healthy weight among children aged 2-6 years, and to examine promising interventions to identify policy goals to overcome these barriers. METHODS We conducted a literature review of published and unpublished articles from January 1990 to February 2006 using keywords rel...

In this work, we develop Bayes rules for several families of loss functions for hospital report cards under a Bayesian semiparametric hierarchical model. Moreover, we present some robustness analysis with respect to the choice of the loss function, focusing on the number of hospitals our procedure identifies as “unacceptably performing”. The analysis is carried out on a case study dataset arisi...

At present, the supply chain is the last field, which can make enterprise reducing cost and improving flexibility. How to construct the supply chain successfully has received much attention and logistics outsourcing has become common among large manufacturers. The information age and globalization are forcing companies to place a premium upon collaboration as a new source of competitive advanta...

QoS-based service selection mechanisms will play an essential role in service-oriented architectures, as e-Business applications want to use services that most accurately meet their requirements. Standard approaches in this field typically are based on the prediction of services’ performance from the quality advertised by providers as well as from feedback of users on the actual levels of QoS d...

Customers’ pressure, social responsibility, and government regulations have motivated the enterprises to consider reverse logistics (RL) in their operations. Recently, companies frequently outsource RL practices third-party providers (3PRLPs) concentrate on primary concern diminish costs. However, select suitable 3PRLP candidate requires a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) process involving...

Online English education has become a very common way of educating and learning during the coronavirus pandemic. However, weight analysis index for service quality survey online industry remains research gap this period. Thus, implemented analytic network process (ANP) to analyse index, ranking teaching based on (SERVQUAL) questionnaire compare differences between dual perspectives providers co...

The optimal Site selection operation is one of the most important challenges facing planners. Many location-allocation models have been developed based on multi-criteria decision making process. Recent methods take into account site, network, and user characteristics to determine appropriate location. development optimum system has a growing focus for authorities across world. It generally thou...