Design, development, and evaluation of a multi-lingual web-based database for informing people regarding driving-impairing medicines.

Objective: Driving under the influence of drugs (DUID) is a growing traffic safety problem in many countries. It is estimated that 5 to 10% of medicinal drugs may impair driving due to their side effects. Despite the high number of medicinal drugs prescribed in Iran, there is a lack of a database that could provide specialized information regarding medicinal drugs and driving.

Health consequences of the Urmia Lake crisis: the baseline study protocol.

Introduction: Climate change may affect human health due to various mechanisms including overexposure to environmental pollution or dispersed particles. Lake Urmia (LU) drying in recent years has turned into a crisis with particle distribution as its main manifest. It is told that this crisis may affect the health of neighbouring residents.

PERSIAN traffic safety and health cohort: a population-based precrash cohort study.

Purpose: Despite to high burden of road traffic injuries (RTIs), the RTI epidemiology has received less attention with rare investments on robust population cohorts. The PERSIAN Traffic Safety and Health Cohort (PTSHC) was designed to assess the potential causal relationships between human factors and RTI mortality, injuries, severity of the injury, hospitalised injury, violation of traffic law as well as offer the strongest scientific evidence.

Participants: The precrash cohort study is carried out in four cities of Tabriz, Jolfa, Shabestar and Osku in East Azerbaijan province located in northwest Iran.

Adaptation of a European categorization system for driving-impairing medicines in Iran.

Objective: Road traffic crashes due to impaired driving are a leading cause of preventable injuries and deaths. The purpose of this study was adaptation of a European categorization system for driving-impairing medicines in Iran.

Methods: DRUID categorization system was used as a leading model to classify medicines.

Categorization and labeling systems concerning driving-impairing medicines: A scoping review.

Objective: Classification systems concerning driving-impairing medicines can help healthcare providers identify medicinal drugs with no or the least impairing effects and inform patients of the potential risks of certain medicines to safe driving. This study aimed to comprehensively assess the characteristics of classifications and labeling systems regarding driving-impairing medicines.

Methods: Google Scholar and several databases, including PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, EMBASE, safetylit.

Psychometric Properties of EQ-5D-3L Applied through Phone Follow-Ups: An Experience in PERSIAN Traffic Cohort.

Objective: To assess psychometric properties of the European Quality of Life 5-Dimension 3-Level Version (EQ-5D-3L) commonly used tool for measuring road traffic injury (RTI) patients' quality of life.

Methods: The psychometric study assessed the reliability and applicability of EQ-5D-3L through phone surveys, based on a national cohort platform. Data of 150 RTI patients recruited from the cohort study were included as 50 patients per each follow-up phase (one, six, and twelve months after discharge).

PERSIAN Traffic Safety and Health Cohort: a study protocol on postcrash mental and physical health consequences.

Background: Cohort studies play essential roles in assessing causality, appropriate interventions. The study, Post-crash Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies in IrAN Traffic Safety and Health Cohort, aims to investigate the common health consequences of road traffic injuries (RTIs) postcrash through multiple follow-ups.

Methods: This protocol study was designed to analyse human, vehicle and environmental factors as exposures relating to postcrash outcomes (injury, disability, death, property damage, quality of life, etc).

Developing a prioritisation framework for patients in need of coronary artery angiography.

Background: Effective waiting list management and comprehensive prioritisation can provide timely delivery of appropriate services to ensure that the patient needs are met and increase equity in the provision of health services. We developed a prioritisation framework for patients in need of coronary artery angiography (CAA).

Methods: We used a multi-methods approach to elicit effective factors that affect CAA patient prioritisation.

The protocol for validating phone interview tools on post-discharge consequences of road traffic injuries.

Background: Road Traffic Injuries (RTIs) impose a worldwide burden on public health and economy. RTIs result in a wide range of immediate and long-term consequences. However, little is known about post-discharge consequences of RTIs at national levels.

Governance of Iranian Primary Health Care System: Perceptions of Experts.

Background: Despite huge advances in improving most health indicators, Iranian primary health care (PHC) has faced several problems in improving the quality of care inside the health care system. Developed countries with similar problems have used various models of PHC governance for improving quality in their PHC system. This study aimed to obtain health professionals' perspectives about the suitable pillars and components of Iran's PHC governance model.

Status of Iran's Primary Health Care System in Terms of Health Systems Control Knobs: A Review Article.

Background: After the establishment of Primary Health Care (PHC) program in Iran, health indicators have improved every year. This progress was so rapid that a number of shortcomings and weaknesses of the PHC program remained silent behind its successes. This study aimed to assess the status of Iran's PHC system (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) in terms of health system's control knobs.

Validity of the Electronic Triage System in Predicting Patient Outcomes in Tabriz, Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Objective: To validate the triage ratings performed by the Electronic Triage System (ETS) using hospitalization, length of stay, resource use, in-hospital mortality and patient bills as outcome measures.

Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study the medical records of 387 patients were reviewed in a one-week period. The data included triage category and the outcome measures were hospitalization, length of stay, in-hospital mortality, patient bill, and used resources.

Effect of Telehealth Interventions on Hospitalization Indicators: A Systematic Review.

Background: Telehealth has been defined as the remote delivery of healthcare services using information and communication technology. Where resource-limited health systems face challenges caused by the increasing burden of chronic diseases and an aging global population, telehealth has been advocated as a solution for changing and improving the paradigm of healthcare delivery to cope with these issues. The aim of this systematic review is to investigate the effect of telehealth interventions on two indicators: hospitalization rate and length of stay.

Inter-rater Reliability of Triages Performed by the Electronic Triage System.

Objective: To examine the inter-rater reliability of triages performed by the Electronic Triage System (ETS) which has recently developed and used in hospital emergency department (ED).

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted prospectively and studied 408 visitors of Tabriz Imam Reza hospital's ED. The variables of interest were age, sex, nurse-assigned triage category, physician-assigned triage category, disease type (trauma, non-trauma), and the referred room within the ED.

Design and Development of a Clinical Risk Management Tool Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).

Background: Patient safety is one of the most important elements of quality of healthcare. It means preventing any harm to the patients during medical care process.

Objective: This paper introduces a cost-effective tool in which the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is used to identify medical errors in hospital.

Designing of Intelligent Multilingual Patient Reported Outcome System (IMPROS).

Background: By self-reporting outcome procedure the patients themselves record disease symptoms outside medical centers and then report them to medical staff in specific periods of time. One of the self-reporting methods is the application of interactive voice response (IVR), in which some pre-designed questions in the form of voice tracks would be played and then the caller responses the questions by pressing phone's keypad bottoms.

Aim: The present research explains the main framework of such system designing according to IVR technology that is for the first time designed and administered in Iran.

Depiction of Trends in Administrative Healthcare Data from Hospital Information System.

Background: administrative healthcare data are among main components of hospital information system. Such data can be analyzed and deployed for a variety of purposes. The principal aim of this research was to depict trends of administrative healthcare data from HIS in a general hospital from March 2011 to March 2014.

The effect of Computerized Physician Order Entry and decision support system on medication errors in the neonatal ward: experiences from an Iranian teaching hospital.

Medication dosing errors are frequent in neonatal wards. In an Iranian neonatal ward, a 7.5 months study was designed in three periods to compare the effect of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) without and with decision support functionalities in reducing non-intercepted medication dosing errors in antibiotics and anticonvulsants.

Factors influencing the quality of medical documentation when a paper-based medical records system is replaced with an electronic medical records system: an Iranian case study.

Objectives: Information technology is a rapidly expanding branch of science which has affected other sciences. One example of using information technology in medicine is the Electronic Medical Records system. One medical university in Iran decided to introduce such system in its hospital.

What they fill in today, may not be useful tomorrow: lessons learned from studying Medical Records at the Women hospital in Tabriz, Iran.

Background: The medical record is used to document patient's medical history, illnesses and treatment procedures. The information inside is useful when all needed information is documented properly. Medical care providers in Iran have complained of low quality of Medical Records.