Identification of the contextual factors influencing the successful implementation of in-service training policies for the health workforce in Iran.

Background: In-service training is critical for achieving organizational goals and developing the health workforce. Therefore, this study aimed to identify contextual factors that significantly impact the implementation of in-service training policies for the health workers.

Methods: This study employed an inductive qualitative approach, utilizing semi-structured interviews as the data collection method.

Best Practices of Hospitals in Management of Epidemic Conditions: A Scoping Review.

Background: Many hospitals globally have valuable experiences in preparing for management and responding to infectious epidemics. Identifying and analyzing these experiences can provide comprehensive and practical data for decision-making and effective performance. This study aimed to conduct a scoping review and content analysis of the best practices of hospital (private or public) management in epidemic conditions.

Healthcare provision for medical tourism: A comparative review.

Providing quality services, using modern technologies, having effective marketing, and providing services at an international level have led to the globalization of hospital services. This study aimed to identify the components of health services in developing countries that provide services to international patients. A comparative review was conducted by searching in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Google, and the websites of the World Medical Tourism Organization, the World Bank, and the Ministry of Health of the selected countries from 2000 to 2022.

How public hospitals manage epidemic crises? Lessons from Iranian public hospitals.

Background: The public hospital preparedness is essential for epidemic disaster like COVID-19 pandemic. This study was conducted to present a hospital management preparedness model of Iran's public hospitals for the epidemic.

Materials And Methods: The method of this study was an exploratory sequential mix method study (qualitative-quantitative).

Content Analysis of Entrepreneurship and Employment Development Policies in Iran's Health Sector: Is It a Health Wealth Promoter?

Context: Growing needs mandates economic growth. Entrepreneurship policies play a significant role in achieving productive employment and sustainable development for the health and wealth of society.

Aims: This study is conducted to find the accordance of this document with the basic theory of the global alphabet model of entrepreneurship on the one hand and a comparison to the real entrepreneurial and economic achievements as social determinants of health (SDOH) on the other hand.

The experiences of hospitals in changing the function of a non-teaching hospital to a teaching hospital: Short-Communication.

Background: In recent years, there have been many non-teaching hospitals that have become teaching hospitals. Although the decision to make this change is made at the policy level; But the unknown consequences can create many problems. The present study investigated the experiences of hospitals in changing the function of a non-teaching to a teaching hospital in Iran.

Differences and their contexts between teaching and nonteaching hospitals in Iran with other countries: A concurrent mixed-methods study.

Background: In terms of missions, hospitals are divided into teaching and nonteaching. In addition, differences in health-care systems in countries will lead to differences in hospitals' operation. Iran, as a specific health-care system, is different from other countries.

Primary care physician payment mechanisms toward universal health coverage: A study of Iran and selected countries.

Background And Aim: Primary care physician (PCP) payment mechanisms can be important tools for addressing issues of access, quality, and equity in health care. The purpose of the present study is to compare the PCP payment mechanisms of Iran, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Thailand.

Methods: This is a descriptive-comparative study comparing the PCP payment mechanisms of Iran and selected countries in 2020.

Performance payment challenges for family physician program.

Context: Payment mechanisms are one of the effective tools for achieving optimal results in health system. Pay for performance (P4P) is one of the best programs to enhance the quality of health services through financial incentives. Considering of implementing family physician program in Iran and the P4P system, it is essential to address the challenges of implementing P4P system in the family physician program.

Essential components of rehabilitation services provided to visually impaired people.

Clinical Relevance: This study was conducted to determine the essential components in the delivery of vision rehabilitation services. The findings could be useful in the planning of vision rehabilitation services by optometrists or health managers.

Background: Appropriate models of delivering vision rehabilitation services are a challenge for service providers worldwide.

Predicting Inpatient Length of Stay in Iranian Hospital: Conceptualization and Validation.

Objective: The length of stay is an important indicator of hospital performance and efficiency. Regarding the importance of the length of stay, this study aimed to design a structural model of the inpatients' length of stay in the educational and therapeutic health care facilities of Iran in order to identify the influencing dimensions.

Methods: The present study was an analytical and applied study.

Current cigarette smoking among Iranian elders; what are the prevalence, inequality and socioeconomic determinants? An analysis on Iranian Rural and Urban Income-Expenditure Survey 2017.

This study aims to investigate the current prevalence of smoking, socioeconomic inequality, and main determinants of it among Iranian ≥60 years in 2017. The data of Iranian Rural and Urban Income-Expenditure Survey for 2017 have been obtained from Statistical Center of Iran. The prevalence rate of current smoking, inequality of current smoking through calculating the Concentration Index, and the main socioeconomic determinants of it have been investigated.

How Cancer Supportive and Palliative Care is Developed: Comparing the Policy-Making Process in Three Countries from Three Continents.

Background: Supportive and palliative care worldwide is recognized as one of the six main cancer control bases and plays an important role in managing the complications of cancer. Limited studies have been published in the field of this policy analysis in the world.

Aim: This study aimed to analysis the policy-making process of supportive and palliative cancer care in three countries.

Components Affecting Pharmaceutical Strategic Purchasing: A Scoping Review.

Pharmaceutical strategic purchasing is considered as a key to improve access to medicines especially for developing countries. The aim of this scoping review is to determine the most important components affecting pharmaceutical strategic purchasing. Here, we employed a comprehensive search strategy across PubMed, ProQuest, EBSCO, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar for the terms related to medicines strategic purchasing.

Hepatitis C virus-related policy-making in Iran: a stakeholder and social network analysis.

Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major public health challenge worldwide. Implementing policies to cope with this challenge requires commitment from all stakeholders at various levels, and all necessary resources should be mobilised. Support for various HCV-related stakeholders can reduce the challenges and obstacles that can be encountered during the programme implementation.

The relationship between fluid resuscitation and intra-abdominal hypertension in patients with blunt abdominal trauma.

Background: Excessive fluid administration for saving patients from hypovolemic shocks is one of the main causes of intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) and abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS). The purpose of this paper is to survey the relationship between fluid resuscitation and increase intra-abdominal pressure (IAP).

Materials And Methods: The present descriptive-analytical study recruited 100 patients with confirmed abdominal trauma and presenting to emergency departments.

Qualitative analysis of national documents on health care services and pharmaceuticals` purchasing challenges: evidence from Iran.

Background: Iranian health sector encountered many challenges in resource allocation and health service purchasing during the past decades, the aim of this study was to determine the main challenges of the present process of health service purchasing for national policymakers and other developing countries with the same setting.

Methods: It was a qualitative study carried out via the complete content analysis of all relevant national documents from 2007 to 2014. In order to retrieve the related documents, we searched the official websites related to the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, four main Iranian insurance organizations, the Health Committee of the Parliament Profile, strategic vice president's site and Supreme Insurance Council.

Indexes of Caring for Elderly in Earthquakes According to the Iranian Experience: A Qualitative Study.

Objective: The elderly are especially susceptible to death and injury in disasters. This study aimed to identify indexes of caring for elderly people in an earthquake according to the Iranian experience.

Methods: This qualitative study was conducted during 2014-2016 by use of the content analysis technique.

Role of transformational leadership on employee productivity of teaching hospitals: using structural equation modeling.

Background: In today's transforming world, increased productivity and efficient use of existing facilities are practically beyond a choice and become a necessity. In this line, attention to change and transformation is one of the affecting factors on the growth of productivity in organizations, especially in hospitals.

Aim: To examine the effect of transformational leadership on the productivity of employees in teaching hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences.

Prevalence of Congenital Anomalies in Iran: A Review Article.

Background: Congenital anomalies are considered as main causes of disability and mortality among children in developing and developed countries. Expenditures of hospitalization and treatment procedures for these children impose a large burden on health system and their families. This study aimed to review the prevalence of congenital anomalies among infants in Iran.

Factors affecting length of stay in teaching hospitals of a middle-income country.

Introduction: The length of stay (LOS) in hospitals is a widely used and important criteria for evaluating hospital performance. The aim of this study was to determine factors affecting LOS in teaching hospitals of Qazvin Providence.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, patients' health records were randomly selected from archives in teaching hospitals of Qazvin in 2013.

Performance Ratio Analysis: A National Study on Iranian Hospitals Affiliated to Ministry of Health and Medical Education.

Background: This study was designed to present and compare Iranian hospitals` performance applying ratio analysis technique.

Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted to present an instant image of 139 Iranian hospitals` performance status applying ratio analysis as one of the non parametric technical efficiency assessment methods in 2008. Data was collected using nine dimensional questionnaires supported by world wide web to achieve main hospital ratios.