What do Iranian general practitioners expect from family physician contracts?

Background: Family medicine has become a main prerequisite of providing primary healthcare and a main reforming strategy to ensure the delivery of efficient and high-quality health services.

Aim: This study aimed to investigate general practitioners' (GP) preferences regarding family physician contract.

Design And Setting: Cross-sectional study was conducted among GPs who registered in Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) family physician plan and were working in the health network of moderately developed regions in Iran.

Evidence based practice among healthcare providers: a cross-sectional study.

Purpose: Nowadays health systems in most of the countries are trying to build their healthcare provision system based on scientific knowledge based evidence. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a crucial factor for quality improvement focusing on compliance with clinical standards. The purpose of this paper is to assess evidence-based knowledge and skills among healthcare providers in Qazvin hospitals in 2016.

Approaches in Health Human Resource Forecasting: A Roadmap for Improvement.

Introduction: Forecasting the demand and supply of health manpower in an accurate manner makes appropriate planning possible. The aim of this paper was to review approaches and methods for health manpower forecasting and consequently propose the features that improve the effectiveness of this important process of health manpower planning.

Methods: A literature review was conducted for studies published in English from 1990-2014 using Pub Med, Science Direct, Pro Quest, and Google Scholar databases.

Learning Organization Profile of Educational Hospitals in Iran: Practice of Organizational Interlocking Systems.

Background: Organizational learning has been identified as necessary for different organizations to improve their performance in the changing and competitive environment.

Purpose: The main purpose of this research was to specify the learning organization profile of educational and health centers of Tehran and Qazvin Universities of Medical Sciences in Iran.

Methodology: The present research was conducted using a cross-sectional method in the academic year of 2013-2014.

Comparing the perspectives of managers and employees of teaching hospitals about job motivation.

Recognition of career motivators and understanding of managers and employees in prioritizing them, in order to plan incentives for this understanding, can play an important role in increasing productivity and creating harmony between the goals of the organization and staff. This study was done to survey the importance of career motivating factors from perspective of employees and managers in educational hospitals of Iran. In this study 269 from a total of 1843 employees of educational hospitals in Qazvin province of Iran were selected through Quota-Random sampling and studied along with all 49 Managers.

Outpatient waiting time in health services and teaching hospitals: a case study in Iran.

Background: One of the most important indexes of the health care quality is patient's satisfaction and it takes place only when there is a process based on management. One of these processes in the health care organizations is the appropriate management of the waiting time process. The aim of this study is the systematic analyzing of the outpatient waiting time.