health systems across the world are concerned with the quality and safety of patient care. this includes investing in research and development to progress advances in the treatment and management of individuals and healthcare organisations. the concept of evidence- based healthcare has gained increasing currency over the last two decades; yet questions persist about the time it takes for new re...

background a model of quality management called strategic collaborative quality management (scqm) model was developed based on the quality management literature review, the findings of a survey on quality management assessment in healthcare organisations, semi-structured interviews with healthcare stakeholders, and a delphi study on healthcare quality management experts. the purpose of this stu...

in 2014, a series of reforms, called as the health sector evolution plan (hsep), was launched in the health system of iran in a stepwise process. hsep was mainly based on the fifth 5-year health development national strategies (2011-2016). it included different interventions to: increase population coverage of basic health insurance, increase quality of care in the ministry of health and medica...

background and objectives: angiography remains as the gold standard for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases (cvd). the aim of this study was to assess the quality of angiography services in shahid madani hospital, tabriz, iran.   methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013 in shahid madani hospital. a sample of 203 cvd patients who had received angiography services was surveyed....

this commentary reviews a recent piece by burton and rycroft-malone on the use of resource based view (rbv) in healthcare organizations. it first outlines the core content of their piece. it then discusses their attempts to extend rbv to the analysis of large scale quality improvement efforts in healthcare. some critique is elaborated. the broader question of why rbv seems to be migrating into ...

introduction: consumers have referred to the web to learn how they can improve their health, prevent disease and learn details about specific diseases. while efforts are being made to monitor information found on the web especially with the emergence of her: electronic health record in iran, they are not enough to cover every web site with health information. as a result, it was decided to eval...

objective: to understand the knowledge and services of informal providers and to explore their role in addressing the human resource gap in uttar pradesh, india, within the context of maternal health. materials and methods: the study is exploratory in nature, conducted in four blocks of four districts of uttar pradesh state, india. semi-structured interviews were conducted with 114 informal pro...

background: concept of e-readiness is used in many areas such as e-business, e-commerce, e-government, and e-banking. in terms of healthcare, e-readiness is a rather new concept, and is propounded under the title of e-healthcare. e-health readiness refers to the readiness of communities and healthcare institutions for the expected changes brought by programs related to information and communica...

private healthcare services in vietnam are seen as a major part of the solution to the rapid increase in need and demand for healthcare services. formally recognized over 20 years ago, the private health services coexist with public services and are available all over the country. however, the scale and size of private sector is still small compared to the public sector and public acceptance an...

background and objectives: pharmacovigilance is central to the control of the menace of adverse drugs reactions. despite the fact that development of policy and practice framework to improve patients’ safety partly rely on availability of authentic data on pharmacovigilance activities, knowledge about pharmacovigilance activities among healthcare professionals in nigeria is limited. to help fil...