background and objectives: patient readmission is an important criterion in performance evaluation of healthcare settings. identifying the causes of the readmissions would help the policymakers in designing strategies for efficient management of health facilities. this stud aimed to explore factors contributing to readmission by sampling from an iranian hospital. methods: clinical records of 38...

Objectives: Hospitals and clinical centers are concerned about patient safety. Safety climate is a perceived value of safety in an organization that could improve the safety of workers and patients. The present research was conducted to study the safety climate of patients in the hospitals and rehabilitation centers affiliated to the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences.  M...

the patient’s satisfaction as an important indicator evaluates the process of care and is a valid method for standardization of hospital services. this cross-sectional descriptive study has done to assess patient satisfaction of hospital services (shahed medical affiliated hospitals). in this study, 500 patients selected randomly and their satisfaction was measured by a standardized questionnai...

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...

conclusions intravenous administration of paracetamol immediately after knee arthroscopy improved postoperative pain, decreased analgesic administration, maintained stable hemodynamic parameters, had no complications related to opiates, no nausea and vomiting, and increased patient satisfaction and comfort in comparison to pca with morphine. results there was no significant difference regarding...

Background: healthcare organizations is being increasingly used. The aim of this study was to clarify PSC statusin Iranian hospitals using a meta-analysis method.Nowadays, for quality improvement, measuring patient safety culture (PSC) inMethodsSID and IranMedex using the search terms including patient safety, patient safety culture, patientsafety climate and combined with hospital (such as “ho...

BACKGROUND Patient safety is of the utmost importance in health care. The patient safety culture in an institution has great impact on patient safety. To enhance patient safety and to design strategies to reduce medical injuries, there is a current focus on measuring the patient safety culture. The aim of the present study was to describe the patient safety culture in an ED at two different hos...