Introduction: Patient safety is a universal concern with numerous gaps requiring research. Nurses are the largest workforce in healthcare system and play a pivotal role in the profitability and patient ...

Introduction: The mission of health promoting hospitals is to change the treatment-based attitude to health-based and health promoting attitude to patients, personnel, clients and all groups of the society. ...

Introduction: Discharge against medical advice (DAMA) indicates the existence of serious problems in the quality of hospital services, which can exacerbate the disease and increase the risk of hospital ...

Introduction: Skin cancer screening clinics constitute a major part of general dermatologists' workload. Patient preferences for the communication of histological results following skin biopsy have not ...

Introduction: Stigma is defined as a set of negative attitudes and beliefs toward specific conditions, such as mental disorders. Mental disorders are among the most stigmatizing conditions throughout the ...

The prevalence of diabetes has been on a growing trend worldwide; accordingly, it has increased from 4.5% in 1980 to 8.5% in 2014 (1). The aim of controlling diabetes is to achieve a hemoglobin a1c (HbA1c) level of lower ...

Introduction: Evidence in the literature shows that healthcare utilizing deliberate discussion linking events (HUDDLEs) for patient safety could enhance inter-professional relationships through improved ...

A cluster random sampling method was applied to choose 193 subjects aged 12 years and above from Mashhad population. A structured questionnaire with open-ended and closed-ended questions was designed to gather information ...

Introduction: Human resources are an important asset to any organization, and it is essential to preserve their health in order to achieve organizational goals. The present study aimed to investigate the ...