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Shahin Salarvand, Rohollah Sheikh Abumasoudi , Fahime Kashani, Mahnaz Samadbeik, Hamed Salarvand,
Volume 15, Issue 1 (6-2016)
Abstract

Background: Informative hospital website is a suitable system to exchange information between patients, hospital and health professionals and attracting consumers in hospitals. This study aimed at determining quality indicators of hospitals' websites.

Materials and Methods: A literature review study was performed by searching in different databases  such as ProQuest, Ovid, Science direct, Scopus, Google scholar, PMC, PubMed  and Persian Electronic Databases  like  Iranmedex ،Magiran ، SID, Iran doc)  using Quality and Hospital website keywords. Full text of articles including English and Persian were reviewed from 2001 to 2014. Selection criteria were articles' subject which were about quality websites hospital and some articles which found from other health-related Websites (85 articles). According to the requirements and selection criteria 45 article were utilized.

Results: In this review, some indicators notified such as Alexa rank, Google page rank, website type, technical content of website, information and hospital facilities, medical and admission service, online interactive services, research scientific activities, accessibility, speed of website, comprehensive plan of website, protect users' personal data, website language, user satisfaction, website map, possibility to navigating in hospital website, email of website and impartiality.

Conclusion: Today, regarding to the importance of hospital websites' quality and addressing to biotourism, it is recommended that hospital websites become so efficient, accessible, useful, credible and accessible in order to further clients satisfaction.


Dr Ebrahim Jaafaripouyan, Dr Alimohammad Mosadeghrad, Abbas Salarvand,
Volume 17, Issue 3 (11-2018)
Abstract

Background: Accreditation is one of the health sector evaluation methods that used to promote healthcare quality. The study aimed to identifiy the strength and weakness of accreditation surveyors and the impact of their performances.
Materials and Methods: This study is a qualitative research which conducted between hospital accreditation stakeholders in 2016- 2017. Data were gathered using semi-structured interviews and analyzed by a thematic analysis method.
Results: The findings of in strengthen were categorized in 7 themes. The main strengthen was acceptance of accreditation by surveyors, educational approach, reputation, personal effort to develop knowledge and skills, and existence of senior surveyors. Our results for weakness were classified in 8 themes. The main weaknesses were lack of sufficient knowledge, experience, skills and weakness in personal characteristics. Based on the findings, the accreditation surveyors’ performance was evaluated as under-moderate in past two periods of hospital accreditation. The interviewees announced that weakness of surveyors’ performances was one of the main effective factors of low stability of accreditation results.
Conclusion: Recruitment of surveyors based on main competence, education and empowerment of surveyors, and assessing the surveyors can lead to more validity of accreditation results and finally lead to increasing the commitment of hospitals to quality.
 
Dr Hosein Dargahi, Sajjad Alahdadi, Abbas Salarvand,
Volume 18, Issue 3 (10-2019)
Abstract

Background: Human resources form the basis of health care systems and nurses are a large part of this community; therefore, paying attention to factors affecting the performance of nurses is necessary. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between mental health dimensions with organizational commitment and work ethics among nurses working in general hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The mental health status among nurses was also investigated.
Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive-correlation study and the study population included nurses from general hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. 242 nurses were selected from Vali-Asr, Imam-Khomeini, Baharlu, Sina, and Amir-Alam hospitals using stratified sampling and responded to self-monitoring questionnaires including GHQ-28, Allen & Meyer's organizational commitment (OCQ), and work ethics (Petty, 1995). Data were analyzed using SPSS-23 software as well as Pearson correlation coefficient, ANOVA, one sample t-test, and independent t-test.
Results: Dimensions of social impairment(r=-0/19, p<0/01) and depression(r=-0/33, p<0/01) correlated with work ethics. Dimension of hypochondriasis correlated with nurses organizational commitment (r=-0/15, p<0/05). The mean of dimensions of hypochondriasis (7.45±0.28), anxiety and insomnia (6.97±0.27) and social impairment (6.33±0.19) among female nurses was higher than the average.
Conclusion: The dimensions of mental health of nurses are related to their organizational commitment and work ethics. Also, the mental health status among nurses is undesirable. Therefore, it is essential to address the issues of nurses at high levels, such as the Ministry of Health and the Nursing Organization, and low levels such as hospitals nursing management.
 

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