Original Article(s)
Hasanali Bakhtiar Nasrabadi; Akhtar Emami Ghahfarokhi
Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2004
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Introduction: Six total quality management principles such as committment, client satis faction , staff , managers and continuous improvement of the quality based on Deming view regarding tom were evaluated in Isfahan university of Medical sciences. Mathods and materials: This is descriptive suovey study ...
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Introduction: Six total quality management principles such as committment, client satis faction , staff , managers and continuous improvement of the quality based on Deming view regarding tom were evaluated in Isfahan university of Medical sciences. Mathods and materials: This is descriptive suovey study in wich the data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire the subiects of the study were 35 managers and their assistants in the faculties and also 172 employees. Results: Managers and employees believed that eommittment, client staisfaction , staff cooperation, appropriate use if statistics and stuff training have been applied in Isfahan university of medical sciences. However, pragressive improvement in the quality of work has been. used in this educational system. Results and Discussion The results revealed that only one of medical sciences and its other principles were not taken into account. Key words: Total quality management, managers and staff, Isfahan university of medical sciences.
Original Article(s)
Zahra Kazemi
Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2004
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Introducton: The aim of the present study is to investigal the information-seeking behavior of academic members, residents and interns in the hopsitals affiliated to Ahvaz university of Medical sciences. Material and Metheds: This a descriptive study and the data were couected by a questionnaire adapte ...
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Introducton: The aim of the present study is to investigal the information-seeking behavior of academic members, residents and interns in the hopsitals affiliated to Ahvaz university of Medical sciences. Material and Metheds: This a descriptive study and the data were couected by a questionnaire adapte from koomar (1374). Results: Findingw revealed that acadmic membrs first used medical journals and then books and monographs while medical studerds first used books and monographs and then medical journals. The han preblems in retrieving recentyly published information in the field of medicine due to shortahe of time and lack of unfamiharity with effective strategies for using information sources. Discussion: The results of this study confirm the results of hte studies carried out by Northup (1983), osiobe (1984) and woolf (1989).
Original Article(s)
Fariba Farahmand
Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2004
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Intreduction Hospitals as main health care prouders have always received great aftention. and in hospitals , special attention ust be paid to the admission unit and its management and organization. The unit plays important role in the evaluation of the hospital. Methods and materials It is a descriptive ...
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Intreduction Hospitals as main health care prouders have always received great aftention. and in hospitals , special attention ust be paid to the admission unit and its management and organization. The unit plays important role in the evaluation of the hospital. Methods and materials It is a descriptive study in which nine inpatients admission units and six outpatient admission units were examined. The data were collected loy questionnaires, echecklists and interviws with the managers of the admission units. Results The findings revealed that admission units did not have nough educated personnel. The admission and emergency units did not have appropriate eqwipment. These units did not carry out some of their major tasks and did not play any role in discharging and transferring the patients. Conclusion and discussion The results puts emphasis on the improver nent of the admission units based on the accepted standars in terms of their location , man power, eqnipment and also faciliating and accelerating the process of admission of the patients. Key words: Admission unit, inpationt, out patient services.
Original Article(s)
Ehsanollah Habibi; Shohreh Etemad; Roya Khalili; Maryam Zahmatkesh
Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2004
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Introduction: As Aedical centers officialy deal with Crisis in a lower level, hospital adminestraters should have sofficiant Knowledge to pravent and Control them this reasearch attens to evaluate hospital managersol Isfahan Medical University regarding Crisis (fire accident) in formation. Materails ...
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Introduction: As Aedical centers officialy deal with Crisis in a lower level, hospital adminestraters should have sofficiant Knowledge to pravent and Control them this reasearch attens to evaluate hospital managersol Isfahan Medical University regarding Crisis (fire accident) in formation. Materails and Methods: This reearch is a discriptire one which is applied in all hospitals, educational or non-educational, affilated I.M.U. for six month the population involves 11 hospital adminestrated Information is gathered through questionnare including 60 questions. Questions validity were supported by 3 academic members of medical Informative school. The questioners rebility is 83% base on x-koronbakh the data of was prossed by spss and coralation of variables was obtain by K2-Spierman Peierson by x=5% biase. Results: The results preasented: The mean was 27.63 + 7.36 out of sixty. 1-The mean regarding to 5 specgfic questions of first aim was 2.18+0.75 out of 5. 2- The mean regarding to 9 specific questions of second aim was 2.45+1.29 out of 9. 3- The mean regarding to 7 specific questions of third aim was 6.81+2.9 out of 7. 4- The mean regarding to 7 specific questions of forth aim was 2.63+1.02 out of 7. 5- The mean regarding to 5 specific questions of fifth aim was 3.45+0.52 out of 5. 6- The mean regarding to 20 specific questions of sixth aim was 10.09+3.47 out of 20. Conclusion: According to the above results the hospital adminestrations, knowledge about the Crisis Management of fire accident in hospital was ©©weak¨¨(f.able 1). The degree of their awareness regarding to the necessary equepment for fire announcing intermeicate. The degree of their awarness. Regarding to the necessary equeipment for fire fighting was "weak". Regarding to the how to deal with the fire was inter Mediate. Regarding to the Informing the employes about the fire was "weak". Regarding to the How to transfare the patients to a sofe place was "acceptable". Regarding to the periventive actions for fire accident was intermediate. As a whole their highest Information refers to Item NO.5 and their lowest Information refers to Items NO.2 and 4. Key words: crisis management, fire accident, knowledge.
Original Article(s)
Ali Hesari; Arezoo Esmaeili Khatir
Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2004
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مقدمه: تاثیر زیاد مرگ و میرهای ناشی از سوانح و تصادفات رانندگی روی شاخص های مرگ و میر به خصوص امید به زندگی در بدو تولد و اقتصاد کشور و عدم توجه به این مرگ و میرها، لزوم ...
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مقدمه: تاثیر زیاد مرگ و میرهای ناشی از سوانح و تصادفات رانندگی روی شاخص های مرگ و میر به خصوص امید به زندگی در بدو تولد و اقتصاد کشور و عدم توجه به این مرگ و میرها، لزوم توجه به آثار این مرگ و میرها ضروی است. روش بررسی: نوع تحقیق کاربردی و مطالعه حاضر توصیفی مقطعی، جامعه مورد مطالعه شامل 21873 فوت شدگان سوانح رانندگی در سال 81، منبع اطلاعات سازمان پزشکی قانونی کشور و دفتر اقتصاد کلان سازمان مدیریت و برنامه ریزی کشور می باشد. ابزار جمع آوری اطلاعات چک لیست و روش جمع آوری و تحلیل اطلاعات به کمک دو مدل سرمایه انسانی و فراگیر بوده است. نوع تحلیل نظری توصیفی است. یافته ها: مطالعات نشان داد که 29 درصد کل مرگ و میرها در کشور ناشی از سوانح و حوادث رانندگی بوده است، که 3/81 درصد از آنها مرد و 7/18 درصد را زنان تشکیل داده بودند. محاسبات نشان داد که این مرگ و میرها 12580 میلیارد ریال برای کشور بار اقتصادی داشته است. نتیجه گیری: از آنجا که میزان مرگ و میر و علل آن با مسائل اقتصادی ارتباط دارد و تاثیر این حوادث بر سالهای عمر از دست رفته کشور برابر با 4/1 درصد تولید ناخالص ملی کشور بوده بنابراین بررسی و ریشه یابی و ارائه راهکارهایی به منظور کاهش آن، حائز اهمیت می باشد. واژه های کلیدی: سوانح و حوادث رانندگی، مرگ و میر، امید به زندگی، بار اقتصادی.
Original Article(s)
Azadeh Dehghan; Mohammad Hosein Yarmohammadian
Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2004
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Intreduction: Nowadays, organizational eultcure plays an important role in the process of developing and reconstructing an organization. The selection of an appropriate leadership style by the manager has an significant impact on the development and establishment of a favorable oragnizational culture ...
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Intreduction: Nowadays, organizational eultcure plays an important role in the process of developing and reconstructing an organization. The selection of an appropriate leadership style by the manager has an significant impact on the development and establishment of a favorable oragnizational culture wich pares the ground for the organization to comete with others. Metheds and materials: The is a descriptive study in which 28 managers including the bosses and their deputies in Isfahan university of Medical sciences were selected in census. The data were collected by two questionnaires one for organizational culture and one for leadership style. The validity and reliability of the questionnairs were examined. Both deseriptive (e.g percentage of frequency) and inferential statistics (e.g.chi.square, fisher-man exact test, Mann-Withn ey) were used to analyze the data spss soft ware. Results: The leadership style was freqnently eoeperative in this study. The was a peweful organizational culture prevailing and there was no relatienship between the manager ¨s leadership style and different organizational cultures due to lack of variety of leadership styles and their demographie fealures. And neither was any relationship between different kinds of organizational cultures and the manager’s demographic features when p is less than 0.05. Discussion: The findings revealed that the managers did not have enough varieties in their leadership styles. The managers should by able to choose an appropriate leadership. style according to the specifie sityation he encounters. Key words: organizational culture, leadership style, manager.
Original Article(s)
Ali Mohammad Mosadegh Raad; Nahid Shirani Bidabadi; Parvaneh Ezzati
Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2004
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Introduction: Implementiong hyginic principles in hospitals increase their effectivenss, efficiency and productivity. Any negligence in this ease may resultin serious health hazards to patients and hospital. This research was performed to examine the hyginic conditions of the hospitals affiliated to ...
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Introduction: Implementiong hyginic principles in hospitals increase their effectivenss, efficiency and productivity. Any negligence in this ease may resultin serious health hazards to patients and hospital. This research was performed to examine the hyginic conditions of the hospitals affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical scrences. Methods: To perform this descriptive and cross-sectional research, a researcher -made check list was used. The check-list contains two parts; questions about the hospital demographic conditions (7 questions) and questions related to hospital safety (201 questions). After approbing the validity and reliability of the checklist, it was completed in 11 IMUHs. The data were analyzed spss 11 software. Results: The mean point value of safety is 3.04þ0.29 of 5 credis. The safety condition of one hospital (9.1%) was low, 9 hospitals (81.8%) was medium and one hospital (9.1%) was good. The saftey principls were applied more in diagnostie departments rather than treatment and ancilliary departments. Discussion: The hygienic conditions of the hospitals affiliated to were Isfahan university of Medical science, consider safety snd hygeinic principles in their hospital in order to incresase the productivity of their hospitals. Key words: Safty-hospital
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Akbar Kolahdoozan; Mansoureh Moeini; Ahmad Papi; Gholamreza Asgari; Behzad Zolfaghari
Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2004
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Introduction: In scientific meetings, researchers present their research findings of their dissertations and the scientific identity of the universities deperd on the quality of these scientific documents. The more the principles of writing are observed in these dissertations, the more easily and fluently ...
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Introduction: In scientific meetings, researchers present their research findings of their dissertations and the scientific identity of the universities deperd on the quality of these scientific documents. The more the principles of writing are observed in these dissertations, the more easily and fluently the writer ¨smessage is transferred to the readers. Methods: This is a dexriptive study in which the mistakes in lefended dissertations of MS and MB students were classified into five groups: spelling grammar, puncutation, grgnization and comprehension. The date were anayzed by descriptive statistics. Results: 18.92% of mistakes were typographical. Next, in 13.61% of cases Hzmzeh was not writlen correctly. The most freqnet.mistakes were organizational and least frequent ones were grammatical. Discussion: The findings revealed that in order to improve the quality of dissertations, students should pay more attention to spelling of words, puncuation how to write Hamzeh, whether to connect the letter (ب) to the noun or verb and whether to connect two words or not. key words: writing principles, persian spelling, puncuation, editting dissertations, grammatical points, organization of research.
Original Article(s)
Reza Dehghan; Vahideh Ghorbani
Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2004
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In fact, health strategists and policymakers contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of planning, providing and evaluating health care, and the use of various capabilities of ITC. The evidence for this claim includes: e-government, e-development, e-commerce, e-assurance and the same issues which ...
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In fact, health strategists and policymakers contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of planning, providing and evaluating health care, and the use of various capabilities of ITC. The evidence for this claim includes: e-government, e-development, e-commerce, e-assurance and the same issues which are pursued in high levels of govemment’s legislative and executive bodies. E-health is considered a large-scale managerial strategy. The main issues in the first section of this paper include: limitations faced by managers in using finacial, physical and human resources, the necessity of a systematic approach used by managers and focus on the efficiency of processes as well as optimal use of available resources,, the importance of Information Systems and their operation mechanisms in organization. In second section, these issues will be discussed: concepts and operational definitions of public health and e-health, potential applications of ICT in healthcare (including hospital services, out patient cares, palliative care and home care) and related challenges, as well as ethics of e-health system. In section three, the qualitative and quantitative benefits of ICT in health (including more accuracy, the accessibility and timeliness of information, less chance of medical errors, more efficiency as a result of less costs in human resources, physical equipment and other resources, better performance in insurance services will be human resources, physical equipment and other resources, better performance in insurance services will be studied and a successful mechanism of e-health efficiency (cost analysis) will be presented in final section, an analysis of current status of e-health in some developed and developing countries, progress trend in e-health application will be presented. Also, some recommendations, offered by WHO and some universities and organizations working in e-health domain will be presented. Key words: HICT: Health Information and Cammunication Technology, e-health: Electronic Health.
