Identifying factors affecting a healthy lifestyle in the post-COVID-19 era.

Background: A healthy lifestyle is one of the important global concepts in the post-COVID-19 era, which can lead to maintaining and improving the health of societies. This study aimed to identify the factors affecting a healthy lifestyle in the post-COVID-19 era.

Materials And Methods: The current research is a qualitative study that was conducted in the field by theoretical sampling method.

Situational Analysis of Essential Surgical Care Management in Iran Using the WHO Tool.

Background: Surgery is an essential component of health care, yet it has usually been overlooked in public health across the world.

Objectives: This study aimed to perform a situational analysis of essential surgical care management at district hospitals in Iran.

Materials And Methods: This research was a descriptive and cross-sectional study performed at 42 first-referral district hospitals of Iran in 2013.

Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the "Hospital Ethical Climate Survey".

In order to improve the ethical climate in health care organizations, it is important to apply a valid measure. This study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Hospital Ethical Climate Survey (HECS) and to assess nurses' perceptions of the ethical climate in teaching hospitals of Iran. A cross-sectional study of randomly selected nurses (n = 187) was conducted in three teaching general hospitals of Tehran, capital of Iran.

Psychological factors explaining the referral behavior of Iranian family physicians.

Background: The recently developed policy of the family practice program in rural regions of Iran faced some challenges such as inefficient referral system. The health insurance organizations (purchaser) and health policy makers are concerned about the high rate of patient referrals from family physicians to specialists due to imposing unnecessary services and costs.

Objectives: This study examined utility of the theory of planned behavior to explain intention of Iranian family physicians to reduce referral rate of patients with respiratory diseases to medical specialist.

The role of nurse practitioners in health sector reform in Iran (2011).

Background: Most countries use educated nurses called "nurse practitioners" (NPs) besides the family physicians for diagnosis, treatment, and specifically health education of the family. The main goal of this study was to redefine the role of NPs for better use of their capabilities in the so-called "family physician reform" in Iran.

Materials And Methods: This is a qualitative and comparative study carried out in three stages (triangulation method) in 2011.

Parallel quality assessment of emergency departments by European foundation for quality management model and Iranian national program for hospital evaluation.

Background: European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model is a widely used quality management system (QMS) worldwide, including Iran. Current study aims to verify the quality assessment results of Iranian National Program for Hospital Evaluation (INPHE) based on those of EFQM.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012 on a sample of emergency departments (EDs) affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Iran.

Development of an effective risk management system in a teaching hospital.

Background: Unsafe health care provision is a main cause of increased mortality rate amongst hospitalized patients all over the world. A system approach to medical error and its reduction is crucial that is defined by clinical and administrative activities undertaken to identify, evaluate, and reduce the risk of injury. The aim of this study was to develop and implement a risk management system in a large teaching hospital in Iran, especially of the basis of WHO guidelines and patient safety context.