Js Tabrizi, A Jannati , Z Hamzehei, Mr Narimani,
Volume 8, Issue 3 (7 2010)
Abstract
Background: Education and evaluation should be designed to educate and evaluate students in the real field or similar to their future work place. This study aimed to improve summative evaluation in internship.
Material & Methods: A quantitative (61 students) and qualitative (15 students) study with health services management students conducted in Tabriz Faculty of Health and Nutrition. OSFE was developed as a summative evaluation method based on students' experiences about final evaluation of clerkship, which ascertained using two FGDs. In the OSFE method students attended in the several stations to do particular skills individually. In each station students' skill has been assessed by a trained examiner using standard checklists. At the end of exam, students' opinion about new method has been asked through qualitative and quantitative methods. Qualitative data analyzed by hand and SPSS software was used to analyze quantitative data.
Results: Findings from FGDs (after OSFE) showed that the majority of students were satisfied about OSFE and they believed that it is a good method to assess students' skills and competencies. Quantitative study also demonstrated that 74% of students believed that OSFE is a good method to evaluate their capabilities and 70% verified that they have been attended in an orientation session about OSFE. Moreover, 58% considered OSFE as an equitable method.
Conclusion: It can be suggested that OSFE could be used as a valuable summative evaluation method for non-medical students' clerkship and practical courses.
H Jabbari Beirami, A Jannati, Y Mousazadeh,
Volume 12, Issue 3 (12-2013)
Abstract
Abstract
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.
Ali Jannati, Neda Kabiri, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi, Behrooz Pourasghari, Babak Bayaz,
Volume 14, Issue 1 (6-2015)
Abstract
Background: Pay-for-performance (P4P) is a payment model which tries to pay for the measured aspects of performance and encourage health care providers by providing financial incentives in order to achieve pre-defined goals. This research was done to assess the impact of P4P on efficiency of medical laboratory of Imam Reza hoapital in Tabriz in 2013.
Materials & Methods: This interventional research was a before-and-after study. In order to recognize any changes, efficiency indexes of laboratory were measured and compared whole the year. The data were collected manually assessing the related documents. For comparing efficiency before and after intervention, descriptive statistics were used.
Results: Findings showed that costs didn’t differ significantly after the intervention, but revenue was a little increased slightly (14364 to 16874). Laboratory errors were also increased after the intervention. (0 to 17 cases).
Conclusion: Regarding the results of survey , it seems that we can conclude that this bonus payment system can be used in all levels in which care is provided such as primary health care centers, drug stores, diagnostic centers and hospitals through setting pre-defined goals and considering negative point for any staff who makes an error.
