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Original Article
Ali Mojarad-Hefzabad; Haniyeh Sadat Sajadi; Fatemeh Soleymani; Meisam Seyedifar
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Introduction: Given the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on routine healthcare delivery, access to the drugs needed was challenging for patients with chronic diseases. This study endeavored to identify the problems of these patients in accessing their medicine during COVID-19 ...
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Introduction: Given the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on routine healthcare delivery, access to the drugs needed was challenging for patients with chronic diseases. This study endeavored to identify the problems of these patients in accessing their medicine during COVID-19 and the proposed solutions from the perspective of concerned people.Methods: This qualitative study was conducted through semi-structured individual interviews. Participants (n = 34) were purposefully selected from health policymakers, physicians, pharmacists, and patients with chronic diseases in Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Data were analyzed through the content analysis method.Results: Data analysis was categorized into six themes and 15 sub-themes. Primary challenges included medical care, accessing the required drugs, patient’s financial ability, and access to information. Strategies were related to governance situation in the drug sector and the drug supply chain.Conclusion: To improve patients' access to the medicine they need in crises, proper planning to supply the medicine, using the capacity of pharmacies and pharmacists, setting up systems related to telemedicine, and faster implementation of electronic prescription is recommended.
Original Article
Madineh Naderi; Mohsen Shafiei-Nikabadi
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Introduction: Adoption of cloud computing in the health industry is an important strategy to improve the quality of health services, facilitate patient care, and reduce hospital operating costs and an effective practice in improving the customer relationship management (CRM). This study endeavored to ...
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Introduction: Adoption of cloud computing in the health industry is an important strategy to improve the quality of health services, facilitate patient care, and reduce hospital operating costs and an effective practice in improving the customer relationship management (CRM). This study endeavored to investigate the effect of cloud computing adoption on CRM with the quality mediator role of healthcare services.Methods: This was a descriptive-correlational- study. The population included all the staff of 6 training hospitals in Ahvaz, Iran, which based on Morgan table and quota sampling, 306 people were selected. Sargolzaei Javan standard questionnaire for cloud computing adoption variable, Yaghoubi et al. questionnaire for CRM, and Parasuraman et al. questionnaire and Buyukozkan et al. questionnaire for evaluating the quality of healthcare services were used. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were evaluated using experts’ evaluation and comments and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient.Results: Cloud computing adoption had a significant effect on quality of healthcare services. There was a significant relationship between cloud computing adoption and CRM, and between quality of healthcare services and CRM. Besides, the mediating role of healthcare service quality between cloud computing adoption and CRM was confirmed.Conclusion: Adoption of cloud computing has led to the improvement of the quality of healthcare services in the teaching hospitals of Ahvaz. Through the use of cloud computing technology, hospitals can access the information about each patient in order to facilitate more effective planning and better service delivery.
Original Article
Maryam Khodabin; ُSaeed Shirshahi; Nosrat Riahinia
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Introduction: Awareness of the status of academic products in dentistry can help researchers of this discipline to make decision. This study outlines the academic structure of a decade of research (2010-2020) in dentistry in the Middle Eastern countries.Methods: This was a descriptive-scientometric research. ...
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Introduction: Awareness of the status of academic products in dentistry can help researchers of this discipline to make decision. This study outlines the academic structure of a decade of research (2010-2020) in dentistry in the Middle Eastern countries.Methods: This was a descriptive-scientometric research. The required data were extracted from the science citation index. The population included all documents produced in the dentistry field by authors from Middle Eastern countries, between 2010 to 2020. 2653 scientific documents were collected. Scientometric method was employed to map the scientific structure.Results: The field of Dentistry Oral Surgery Medicine had the highest rate of scientific production among the disciplines of dentistry. The academic structure of this discipline consists of 7 clusters. Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, was ranked third in the list of top universities of the Middle East and Iran was ranked third in the Middle East. Lexical connections of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pandemics, protocols, transmission, and COVID-related issues were evident.Conclusion: Creating an emerging cluster centered on COVID-19 and allocating 74 articles and 12 co-occurrences during a year (2019-2020) shows the concerns of dentists due to the imposed conditions of COVID-19, which has led to research for finding a solution to the safety of dental clinics and concerns caused by the COVID-19 epidemic.
Original Article
Omolbanin Asadi-Ghadiklaei; Nadjla Hariri; Maryam Khademi; Fahimeh Babalhavaeji
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Introduction: Due to the importance and status of the endocrine field in the health sector, facilitating information retrieval in this field seems to be important. This study endeavored to run topic modeling of articles published by Iranian researchers in the field of endocrinology and metabolism in ...
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Introduction: Due to the importance and status of the endocrine field in the health sector, facilitating information retrieval in this field seems to be important. This study endeavored to run topic modeling of articles published by Iranian researchers in the field of endocrinology and metabolism in the science citation database.Methods: This descriptive study was done by text mining method. In this study, abstracts of articles were extracted from the science citation database using selected keywords of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 5552 articles were retrieved from 1977 to 2019, then the text of abstracts was analyzed and categorized in MATLAB software.Results: Subject categories with 20 items were extracted in 48 categories. Diabetes with 7145 recurrences has been considered by Iranian researchers more than other topics. Subject category related to metabolic syndrome diseases had the highest number of articles (304 articles) and subject category No. 47 which was related to osteoporosis had the lowest number of articles (51 articles).Conclusion: Iranian researchers have done more research on metabolic syndrome and less research on osteoporosis. Topic categories including Dwarfism, Parathyroid Diseases, Pituitary Diseases, Gonadal Disorders, Polyendocrinopathies, and Autoimmune that did not exist in the topics resulting from topic modeling indicate a gap in the research of Iranian researchers, that emphasizes the need for more attention to these areas.
Original Article
Abdolrasoul Khosravi; Farhad Lotfi; Mohammadreza Yazdankhah-Fard; Kamran Mirzaei
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Introduction: Virtual education is currently considered an unavoidable necessity. This study endeavored to determine the status of evaluation of virtual courses offered in the field of medical library and information science of medical universities (bachelor’s degree) in the academic year 2021.Methods: ...
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Introduction: Virtual education is currently considered an unavoidable necessity. This study endeavored to determine the status of evaluation of virtual courses offered in the field of medical library and information science of medical universities (bachelor’s degree) in the academic year 2021.Methods: This was a descriptive survey research. The population included 221 undergraduates of medical library and information science at Abadan, Isfahan, Bushehr, and Hamedan universities of medical sciences, Iran. Due to the limited number, the complete enumeration method was used. By the end of the second semester of the academic year 2021, the study population had participated in two semesters of virtual classes. Data were collected by a self-administered questionnaire based on the Kirkpatrick model, which includes three levels of reaction, learning, and behavior, and analyzed using Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test.Results: The mean scores of reaction, learning, behavior change, and evaluation of virtual lessons were 40.38 ± 12.08, 16.60 ± 5.70, 20.90 ± 6.40, and 57.80 ± 17.30, respectively. The effectiveness of virtual education courses held among undergraduates in medical library and information science was reported to be weak.Conclusion: Due to the low level of students' satisfaction with the virtual courses, reducing the level of learning, and inappropriate behavioral change, medical library and information science departments should do necessary planning to improve their virtual education programs based on Kirkpatrick model to pave the way for the use of virtual education and gaining satisfaction, learning, and changing learners' behavior.
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Esmaeil Mazroui-Nasrabadi; Elham Mohammadipour
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Introduction: In an economy with a supply chain from raw materials to the final product, there may be risks that affect the entire supply chain and cause a critical situation. To date, 19 articles have identified and prioritized the risks of the health tourism supply chain, the results of which show ...
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Introduction: In an economy with a supply chain from raw materials to the final product, there may be risks that affect the entire supply chain and cause a critical situation. To date, 19 articles have identified and prioritized the risks of the health tourism supply chain, the results of which show contradictions. Therefore, this study endeavored to do meta-synthesis and model the risks of the health tourism supply chain.Methods: In the first stage, the meta-synthesis qualitative method was used and keywords such as “health tourism supply chain risks, healthcare tourism supply chain risks, medical tourism supply chain risks” were reviewed in databases of Google Scholar, Web of Science, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Emerald Insight, ProQuest, and Scientific Information Database (SID). In the second stage, using the structural-interpretive modeling method, the identified risk model was developed.Results: Using the meta-synthesis method, risks were categorized into seven concept codes, including supply, process, organizational, industry, network, end customer, and environmental risks. Besides, the results of structural-interpretive modeling showed environmental risk of health tourism as the most effective risk and organizational, network, process, and supply risks as the most susceptible risks.Conclusion: According to the conceptual model of the study, environmental risk has the most impact and supply, process, organizational, and network risks have the most susceptibility. Therefore, examining the risks of the health tourism supply chain is important for countries interested in developing and improving the quality of this industry. Besides, managers, policymakers, and planners in the field of health tourism should take into account the benefits of risk identification and analysis at the supply chain level.
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Asghar Ehteshami; Sakineh Saghaeiannejad-Isfahani
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Zahra Kazempour; Hasan Ashrafi-Rizi
