objective: to determine the epidemiology and pattern of emergency operating room workload in nemazee hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, iran. methods: all surgical emergency operations which were performed in nemazee hospital, shiraz, iran were collected over twelve months (september 2007 to september 2008). the data obtained included indications, presenting...

introduction: most of iran’s health budget goes to hospitals as the largest care providing unit in the community. more than 60% of hospital resources are allocated for staffing. one of the problems facing hospitals especially in critical and sensitive parts such as in emergency room is appropriate staffing. this research was designed to investigate and improve nursing staffing and human resourc...

1 Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 2 Department of Radiology, Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 3 ICU-Toxicology Department, Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania Corresponding author: Madalina Ilie Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Emergency Hospital, 8th Floreasca Avenue, 1st District, Bucharest, Romania. E-mail: dr...

conclusions in general, time indices including length of patient stay in the ed and space capacity, emphasizing the need to address these shortcomings. materials and methods this analytical cross-sectional study was conducted via the faculty members of the ed and residents of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences in tehran, iran. data were collected using a predefined questionnaire. de...

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...

introduction: designing a tool that can differentiate those at risk of child abuse with great diagnostic accuracy is of great interest. the present study was designed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of escape instrument in triage of at risk cases of child abuse presenting to emergency department (ed). methods: the present diagnostic accuracy study performed on 6120 of the children under 16 ...