Showing 5 results for Jabbari
N Jabbari , K Houman , B Rahimi ,
Volume 12, Issue 2 (9-2013)
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Background: Today using contrast media in order to diagnose different tissues in radiology section has found a vast range of applications. Thus application of safe procedures and protocols in usage of contrast media to prevent dangerous reactions seems to be of great necessity. That is why in this study we aimed to evaluate the safety of intravenous administration of contrast media in the radiology sections of medical-educational Centers of Urmia. Materials & Methods: This is a descriptive and cross sectional study. Data were gathered using questionnaires derived from articles and international standard guidelines such as (ESURE, RCR) in three areas including: drugs, protocols and facilities. Results: Results indicated that the level of compliance with safety protocols, facilities and drugs were 91.3% and 69.4% and 100% respectively. The average safety observance was 80.9% totally. The results showed that there were some deficiencies in some equipment such as pulse Oximeter and ECG. Moreover, it was found that a unique protocol is not used in all surveyed sections. Conclusion: Regarding the importance of this issue it is necessary to publish and implement a unique protocol for contrast media administrating and to provide all required equipment for improving patient safety process. Meanwhile a wide supervision should have been done by related authorities in or out of the organization.
H Jabbari Beirami, A Jannati, Y Mousazadeh,
Volume 12, Issue 3 (12-2013)
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Background: Hospitals are the most important health organization and consume major part of health system`s budgets. Downsizing is one of the strategies used for providing suitable services in hospitals. This study was conducted to do a systematic search for hospital downsizing methods and theirs consequences in order to choose suitable method for Iran.
Materials & Methods: Related Articles were identified by systematic search on databases such as Medlib, SID, Pub Med, Science Direct and Google Scholar meta search engine using keywords like Downsizing, Hospital Downsizing, Hospital Rightsizing, Hospital Restructuring, Staff Downsizing, Hospital Merger, Hospital Reorganization and Persian equivalents. 379 articles were extracted and refined step by step. Finally, 25 articles were selected according to study`s goals.
Results: The identified downsizing methods included reducing the number of employees and hospital beds, outsourcing, merging hospital wards and combination of fore mentioned methods. The most important consequences of using these methods were: cost, revenue, outpatient visits and surgery, length of stay and hospital admission rates, mortality rate, stakeholder satisfaction, workload of employees mental health and absenteeism .
Conclusion: study results indicated that different methods of downsizing are used for providing suitable services and decreasing costs in hospitals. Using Merger and outsourcing are suggested among different methods in hospital wards according to current situation of our country.
Alireza Jabbari, Maryam Gholami, Zahra Kavosi, Parisa Chamanpara,
Volume 15, Issue 3 (8-2016)
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Background: The subjects' demographic characteristics are factors influencing their viewpoints about healthcare quality and have a positive association with the clients’ satisfaction. This study aimed at investigating the role of demographic variables on medical tourists' viewpoints about service quality of hospitals in Shiraz.
Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 foreign patients who referred to Shiraz hospitals during the first six months of 2013. Data collection tool was a questionnaire consisting of two parts. In the first part, medical tourists' information was collected and in the second part, their expectations and perceptions of services quality were measured using adapted SERVQUAL scale. The validity was checked out by experts and reliability confirmed by Cronbach’s Alpha test for expectations and perceptions separately (90% and 89%). Finally, data analyzed through SPSS v.16 software using independent t-test and ANOVA.
Result: According to the results, the mean score of the quality gap was estimated -0.26 for people over the age of 50 years, as it was lower than other groups. Also, the lowest total values of this quantity were related to the individuals with low level of literacy and those who stayed less than 7 days for treatment which were estimated -0.32 and -0.36 respectively. In addition, based on statistically significant dimensions, married tourists, people from Oman and those who had received eye surgery had lower gap mean score than the other patients as their total values were estimated -0.42, -0.21 and -0.22, respectively.
Conclusion: In order to develop the medical tourism industry, the demographic characteristics of the subjects should be considered in policy making and service design which can be result in majority satisfaction.
Mohammadreza Tavakkoli, Dr. Saeed Karimi, Dr. Marzieh Javadi, Dr. Alireza Jabbaria,
Volume 16, Issue 1 (4-2017)
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Background: In year 1995, new system administration plan of hospitals (fee for service) was notified. This scheme was implemented in hospitals for 20 years. In the early September 2104, new guidelines of performance-based fee for service plan with the aim of deficiencies in the previous plan was reviewed and implemented in hospitals in Isfahan. This study aimed at investigating reform strategies to improve monitoring performance and infrastructure implementation development of the new scheme of fee guidelines in 2014.
Materials and Methods: This study was a qualitative one based of phenomenology. Depth interviews were used to collect data. Eleven individuals assessed including top and middle managers and professors of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences using content analysis method.
Results: In this study, eight main themes and ten sub-themes extracted including appropriate policy making, health management reform in health system, cultural building in monitoring, proper planning, physicians' motivation, infrastructure improvement, improving training, informatics and constructive interactions between senior managers and hospitals' directors.
Conclusion: With the aim of rationalizing the health system, new instructions and fee for service plan should be considered well to tackle weak points. It seems that coping with these weak spots in new fee for service plan, has feasibility to provide more satisfaction among physicians and staff. To achieve main goal of the project which defined as patients and staff satisfaction, using new reform strategies to facilitate plan implementation, continuing observation and stronger mentoring recommended.
Dr Nasrin Shaarbafchi Zade, Dr Alireza Jabbari, Mehri Hashemian,
Volume 18, Issue 2 (8-2019)
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Background: Calculating the cost of services enables the existing resources to be used in the most efficient and effective way possible. Time- Driven Activity Based Costing is a method that, in addition to costing, also calculates the efficiency and unused capacity of resources. The purpose of this study was to use this method to calculate the costs of radiology and CT scans services in two hospitals.
Materials & Methods: The present cross-sectional and retrospective research was done in a descriptive-analytic manner in two hospitals affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2018. Data were collected in designed Excel forms, and costs of services were calculated using Time- Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) method.
Results: The cost of most radiology services and total CT scan services in the government sector was more than that of the private sector. The unused capacity of resources in the public sector was more than private sector. The time spent for providing the services in the two hospitals was the same except for the technician's career. The average cost of radiology services was 223324 in hospital (A), and 194094 Rials in hospital (B). The average cost of the CT scan services was 600522 in hospital (A), and 485230 Rials in hospital (B).
Conclusion: According to the findings of the study, the need for human resources management to reduce unused capacity and increase efficiency, as well as improving service delivery processes in order to reduce the time required to provide services seems necessary. Replacing low-cost resources is another solution that is effective in reducing costs. The standards of the most efficient centers of health services are often worth the benchmarking.
