introduction: ambulatory care is an inseparable part of health care system. it is commonly considered as the entrance of the patient to the health care system. high qualify ambulatory care has an important role in reducing mortality and morbidity rates. on the other hand, quality of information has an important role in the quality and safety of ambulatory health care. it is hence necessary to p...

introduction: one of the most fundamental duties of him professionals is the duty to maintain health information about their patients. this duty is imposed explicitly by state and federal statuted and regulations as well as by accreditation standards. also one of the most important responsibilities him professionals have is keeping confidential health information out of the hands of unauthorize...

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...

introduction: nowadays, researches are used in various disciplines of science as a powerful means of evaluating the latest scientific achievements. the most important source in medical studies, however, seems to be patients' documents in hospitals' archives. the basic aim of this study was to determine the importance and the application of medical records in doing researches from the viewpoint ...

introduction: accurate documentation of the cause of death is critical for health care planning. in this study, the most important causes of death registered on death certificates and the most important issues preventing accurate registration and access to death information in the town of rafsanjan were surveyed. methods: this was a descriptive study. all death certificates (totally 1197) issue...

background different methods are used for adequate fluid intake assessment, while there is no standard method for adequate fluid intake assessment. objectives the current pilot study aimed to evaluate the amount, type and frequency of fluids consumption to determine the correlation between three- and seven-day records. methods this pilot cross-sectional study was done on 30 adult subjects in ah...

The US Government is mandating a transition from paperbased patient record systems to electronic medical record systems (EMR), as well as an adopting of the personal health record (PHR). This research seeks to employ nonclinical IT adoption models in a clinical setting to understand how the legal governances, incentives and penalties, and unremitting changes in requirements impact the adoption ...

the fauna of the braconid genera atanycolus foerster, glyptomorpha holmgren, pseudovipio szepligeti and vipio latreille belonging to the subfamily braconinae were studied in some parts of northern (alborz, qazvin, gilan and tehran) and southern provinces of iran (hormozgan). specimens were collected using malaise traps during 2010–2012. eightspecies were identified of which two species, namely ...