Background and Aim: Hospital accreditation is a systematic external evaluation of a hospital’s structures, processes and results (outputs/ outcome) by an independent professional accreditation body using pre-established optimum standards. This study aimed to examine the relationship between accreditation and hospital performance. In addition, the most important accreditation constructs affectin...

Introduction:   Today, there isgap between the potential of the health system and its current performance, which justifies the need to a performance appraisal model for the health sector. The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive performance evaluation model for assessing the performance of hospitals. Methods:   For this purpose, 12 hospitals under the supervision of Tehran Unive...

Background : Performance of hospital managers need to be evaluated based on suitable criteria to get better performance. Unfortunately no formal and systematical performance assessment system has been used to evaluate managers. The aim of this study is to determine the concrete and suitable hospital managers, performance assessment using experts, views. Materials and Methods: This study was a ...

Background: Quality of health care includes some degree of services provided to individuals and communities to increase the likelihood of desired results and are updated in accordance with professional knowledge. To assess the quality of services provided in hospitals, indicators and performance standards are needed to be identified, because these indicators are the structure of the hospital ev...

Background: The quality of hospital systems depends greatly on the performance of nurses, and the performance of nurses has a significant effect on individual patients` satisfaction. Therefore, it is important to examine the factors related to nurses' performance. The aim of study was to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence and occupational hardiness and the job performan...