A study of factors affecting the length of hospital stay (LOS) of COVID-19 patients: A qualitative evidence in Iranian hospital.

Background: The present study aimed to identify the administrators' and physicians' experiences and viewpoints about the factors affecting the length of stay (LOS) of COVID-19 patients and provide valid operational evidence.

Materials And Methods: The current study was carried out qualitatively and phenomenologically on experts, officials, and administrators of hospitals in 2021. Purposeful sampling was performed with the maximum diversity.

Establishing clinical governance model in primary health care: A systematic review.

Clinical governance is a systematic approach to enhancing the quality of primary health care and ensuring high clinical standards, responsiveness to performance, and continuous improvement in service quality. The objective of the current study was to investigate the global experiences of clinical governance in primary health care. In the present systematic review, relevant articles from different countries were searched in various databases such as MD PubMed from Medline portal, Emerald Springer link, ProQuest, Cochrane, Scopus, Web of Science, and Consult until April 2019.

Assessment of performance in teaching hospitals: Using multicriteria decision-making techniques.

Background: It is essential to evaluate the performance of hospitals in the health system. Hospitals need a performance evaluation system to develop and compete in order to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of their programs, processes, and human resources. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of teaching hospitals using the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method and hierarchical analysis.

Training needs assessment of nursing managers for achieving university health coverage.

Background: University health coverage gives everyone accesses to health services focused on the most important causes of illness and death and ensures that the quality of services is high enough to improve the health of those receiving services. Nurses as the largest group of staff in the health system play an important role in achieving UHC. This study aimed to determine the training needs of nursing managers in universities of medical sciences of Iran in achieving UHC.

Factors affecting sentinel events in hospital emergency department: a qualitative study.

Purpose A sentinel event is an unexpected occurrence resulting in death or serious physical or psychological injury or the risk thereof. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influencing factors of sentinel events in the emergency department of a military hospital in Tehran to find out some of the effective solutions. Design/methodology/approach In this qualitative study with content analysis approach, 20 hospital healthcare personnel participated as participants from the fields of medicine and nursing.

Conceptual Models of Social Determinants of Health: A Narrative Review.

Background: There are several conflicting conceptual models to explain social determinants of health (SDH) as responsible for most health inequalities. This study aimed to present these models in historical perspective and provide main component of SDH models as an SES indicators.

Methods: This was a narrative study using international databases to retrieve literature dealing with conceptual models of SDH.

Factors Affecting Quality of Emergency Service in Iran's Military Hospitals: A Qualitative Study.

Introduction: Quality is a key factor for the success of any organization. Moreover, accessing quality in the emergency department is highly significant due to the sensitive and complex role of this department in hospitals as well as the healthcare and medical treatment system. This study aimed to identify, from the perspective of medical experts and nurses serving in the military health and medical treatment system, the factors that affect the quality of emergency service provided in selected military hospitals in Iran.

Barriers Against Implementing Blunt Abdominal Trauma Guidelines in a Hospital: A Qualitative Study.

Introduction: Clinical practice guidelines are structured recommendations that help physicians and patients to make proper decisions when dealing with a specific clinical condition. Because blunt abdominal trauma causes a various range of mild, single-system, and multisystem injuries, early detection will help to reduce mortality and resulting disability. Emergency treatment should be initiated based on CPGs.

Barriers to and Facilitators of Inter-Organizational Coordination in Response to Disasters: A Grounded Theory Approach.

Objective: Coordination is a major challenge in the field of health in disasters, mostly because of the complex nature of health-related activities.

Methods: This was a qualitative study based on the grounded theory approach. A total of 22 experts in the field of health in disasters participated in the study.

Evaluation Indexes of Military Hospitals From the Experts' Perspective: A Qualitative Study.

Given the importance of evaluation in an organization and considering the objectives and missions of military hospitals, we aimed to extract some indexes (in addition to common evaluation indexes) for use in evaluating military hospitals. This was an applied-type qualitative study. The participants were 15 health experts who were first chosen by a purposeful sampling, which was then continued by theoretical sampling.

Analyzing and Prioritizing the Dimensions of Patient Safety Culture in Emergency Wards Using the TOPSIS Technique.

Background & Aim: Doubtlessly, permanent development in patient care services is not feasible without paying attention to the culture of safety by health and treatment institutes. The present study is an attempt to analyze the cultural aspects of patient safety in the emergency wards of hospitals affiliated with the Tehran Medical Science University. The viewpoint of the nurses and hospital officials and their priorities were studied.

The relationship between learning style preferences and gender, educational major and status in first year medical students: a survey study from iran.

Background: Identifying and employing appropriate learning styles could play an important role in selecting teaching styles in order to improve education.

Objectives: This study aimed to determine the relationship between learning styles preferences and gender, educational major and status in first year students at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.

Patients And Methods: A cross-sectional study employing the visual-aural-read/write-kinesthetic (VARK) learning style's questionnaire was done on 184 first year students of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing and health services management at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2012.

Macroeconomic policies and increasing social-health inequality in Iran.

Background: Health is a complex phenomenon that can be studied from different approaches. Despite a growing research in the areas of Social Determinants of Health (SDH) and health equity, effects of macroeconomic policies on the social aspect of health are unknown in developing countries. This study aimed to determine the effect of macroeconomic policies on increasing of the social-health inequality in Iran.

Prioritizing the Determinants of Social-health Inequality in Iran: A Multiple Attribute Decision Making Application.

Background: One of the main challenges of healthcare systems of developing countries is health inequality. Health inequality means inequality in individuals' ability and proper functioning, resulting in inequality in social status and living conditions, which thwarts social interventions implemented by the government.

Objectives: This study aimed to determine and prioritize the social determinants of health inequality in Iran.

Early Warning System for Disasters within Health Organizations: A Mandatory System for Developing Countries.

Background: Disaster identification and alert systems can be processed in dif-ferent ways. An early warning system is designed to detect impending danger and send appropriate and clear signals to at risk communities and organizations at the right time and in an unambiguous way. This study aimed to determine early warning system for disaster within health organization in Iran.

Major incident experience and preparedness in a developing country.

Background: Research shows that having previous experience of major incidents has a positive impact on awareness and preparedness of organizations. We investigated the effects of major incident experience on preparedness of health organizations on future disasters in Iran.

Methods: A qualitative study using a semistructured interview technique was conducted with 65 public health and therapeutic affairs managers.