Farzad faraji Khiavi

• Ph.D.
• Faculy member at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences

Background: Due to the increasing costs of the healthcare system and limited financial resources, healthcare policymakers should adopt more cost-effective strategies. Objectives: This study aimed to compare the cost-effectiveness of laparotomy cholecystectomy with laparoscopy. Methods: This economic evaluation was conducted on patients with cholecy...

Background. Employees are critical assets of an organization, and it is necessary to investigate and identify factors affecting their performance and productivity. This study aimed to determine the relationship between job stress and job productivity in university settings. Methods. This cross-sectional study included 124 employees of Ahvaz Jundish...

Background. Employees are critical assets of an organization, and it is necessary to investigate and identify factors affecting their performance and productivity. This study aimed to determine the relationship between job stress and job productivity in university settings. Methods. This cross-sectional study included 124 employees of Ahvaz Jundish...

Background. Cancers are showing a rising trend in developing countries. In Iran, cancer is the third leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases and accidents. The cost of cancer diagnosis and treatment places heavy financial burden on health systems, requiring accurate financial assessments and evaluations. Therefore, this study aimed to...

Background. Cancers are showing a rising trend in developing countries. In Iran, cancer is the third leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases and accidents. The cost of cancer diagnosis and treatment places heavy financial burden on health systems, requiring accurate financial assessments and evaluations. Therefore, this study aimed to...

Introduction Hypertensive patients' failure to refer to health centers for the management of their disease is the most fundamental public health challenge in most societies. The aim of this study was to identify the utilization obstacles to hypertension services provided at comprehensive health centers (CHCs) from the perspective of patients and th...

Background and Objectives Anesthesia is one of the major risks of cesarean surgery, and the decision to choose the type of anesthesia depends on various reasons. This study aimed to identify Reasons for using different methods of anesthesia in cesarean section in selected teaching hospitals located in Khuzestan province. Subjects and Methods The pr...

Outsourcing of the services, as one of the key interventions, has been always given a particular attention by policymakers seeking to improve the performance and reform the financial system of the health sector. This study aimed to identify the factors affecting the decision-making, challenges and obstacles, and evaluation criteria of the hospital...

Background Various vaccines have been developed and distributed worldwide to control and cope with COVID-19 disease. To ensure vaccines benefit the global community, the ethical principles of beneficence, justice, non-maleficence, and autonomy should be examined and adhered to in the process of development, distribution, and implementation. This st...

Background Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were introduced to all Iranian medical universities in 2015 with the launch of Integrated Electronic Health System (which is known as SIB: a Persian backronym in Persian meaning apple ), and a number of studies were conducted on SIB. However, most of these studies did not consider the benefits and challen...

Objective Using self-assessment methods to assess hearing handicap in the elderly can play an important role in understanding their disease status and taking action to improve it. Thus, the present study was performed to determine the consistency of two versions hearing handicap inventory for elderly, namely HHIE and HHIE-S, with the degree of hear...

Purpose: Professors are considered a very crucial factor in educating students. Identifying the criteria of a competent professor and trying to evaluate and apply them in teaching the professors will enhance the learning process. The purpose of this study was to survey the characteristics of a competent professor from the viewpoint of students of A...

Background Despite its special importance among different age groups, the middle-aged male group has often been neglected in the Iranian health system. The aim of this study was to examine, from the perspective of primary health care providers, the challenges of middle-aged men in utilizing health services. Methods This is a qualitative research t...

Background: Due to the increasing costs of the health system and limited financial resources, healthcare policymakers should apply more cost-effective strategies. This study aimed to compare the cost-effectiveness of laparotomy cholecystectomy with laparoscopy. Methods: This economic evaluation was performed on patients with cholecystitis who were...

Background and Aims Elderly people are potentially vulnerable with a higher need for health services, and utilization of Essential Public Health Services (EPHS) among this group is of high importance. This study aimed to examine the utilization of health services among the elderly in Iran during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak. Methods This...

Background. The aim of study was to determine the relationship between managers’ communication skills and nurses’ organizational performance in teaching hospitals. Methods. This was a descriptive-analytic research using correlational analysis method. The research population included managers and nurses in 5 educational hospitals in Ahvaz city of Ir...

Background More than three decades of research and study for overcoming the problem of “non-acceptance/non-compliance” of patients has neither resolved nor reduced the severity of this problem. This phenomenological study aimed to identify barriers of adherence to medical advice among type 2 diabetic patients. Methods This study was a qualitative...

Background: Enhancing health literacy may improve health-related quality of life. Given the more educational programs in nursing homes, this study aimed to determine the relationship between health literacy and the quality of life among the elderly living in nursing homes and those living with their families in Ahvaz, Iran. Methods: This descriptiv...

Subject: The needs and wants of patients as one of the pillars of marketing in the health field required the right tools to identify the consumer's requests. This research was conducted in order to design an appropriate tool based on the 7 Ps model to evaluate the factors affecting the behavior of using services in the customers referring to diabet...

Background Clinical errors are one of the challenges of health care in different countries, and obtaining accurate statistics regarding clinical errors in most countries is a difficult process which varies from one study to another. The current study was conducted to identify barriers to reporting clinical errors in the operating theatre and the in...

Background and Objectives Reporting of medical errors is one of the common methods for identifying and preventing errors in hospital care. The purpose of this study was determine the barriers of error reporting from nurses' viewpoints in Ahvaz teaching hospitals. Material and Methods: This was a descriptive-analytical study with a sample size of 20...

Introduction: Quality is a key factor in the distinction of services and it is a potential source of sustainable competitive advantage, increase productiveness and patient satisfaction. The identification of strengths and weaknesses in quality of provided services can help to recognize priorities and develop improvement strategies. The purpose of t...

Background and Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between creativity and entrepreneurial skills in health system managers of the educational hospitals. Material and Methods This research is descriptive-analytical and applied in terms of purpose. The study population includes the managers of teaching hospitals in Ahv...

Introduction: Activity-based costing system allows organizations to identify the actual cost of their services in terms of related consumed resources as well as increase efficiency of health service organizations. The purpose of this study was to determine the cost of Sonography and CT scan services by Activity-based costing method. Method: In thi...

Background: Nurses face a lot of stress in their jobs, and the quality of life has a significant impact on the quality of their services. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between general health and the quality of life conditions in nurses working in hospitals affiliated with Jundishapur University of Medical Sc...

BACKGROUND: Conditions and needs of autistic children have impacts on both the children and the family members who have crucial roles in raising the child. The prevalence of autism is increasing, and this fact makes it necessary to focus more on experiences of parents who have children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Hence, this study aimed to...

BACKGROUND: Medical records constitute a legal and professional document regarding the activities of medical staff in hospitals. This study was conducted with the aim of identifying the factors that affect the quality of medical records by implementing the accreditation models in hospitals. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a qualitative study. The d...

Background: Clinical errors are one of the challenges of health care in countries; moreover, the obtaining of accurate statistics regarding clinical errors in most countries is a difficult process and varies from one study to another. The current study was conducted to identify impediments in the reporting of clinical errors in the operating theatr...

Background: Nowadays, obesity is one of the most important public health problems worldwide. There are so many various factors interfering with obesity that it is necessary to be studied separately in each population. Although many people can lose weight by observing low-energy diets, they often return to the former weight and even higher. The pres...

Background and purpose: It seems that the quality of services can be improved through the promotion of social capital. This study aimed to determine the association between the social capital and the quality of health services from the perspective of managers of educational hospitals affiliated with Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences....

Background: No previous studies have assessed the psychometric properties of the 36-item version of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) in the Persian language of Iran. This study was designed and conducted to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Persian version using a sample of persons with multi...

Background and Objective: Social capital may help organizational knowledge management via providing necessary platforms and facilitating the interchange of knowledge. So this research aimed to determine the relationship between social capital and effectiveness of knowledge management from the viewpoints of the teaching hospitals of Ahvaz managers....

Introduction: Pharmaceutical services are one of the essential components in primary health care settings. In recent years, the provision of some of these services has been left to the private sector with the aim of increasing quality, patient satisfaction, innovative ideas through interactions with other sectors and organizations, and cost reducti...

Background Evidences showed that the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure is unequally distributed among disadvantaged populations. The present study has tried to explain the contributors of this unfair inequality in Hamadan, Iran. Methods The target population was households that utilized inpatient services in hospitals of Hamadan. A prop...

Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global emergency and is one of the major threats to human and public health, more than 60 years of its medical treatment, as well as the economic and social development of societies. More than 2 billion individuals are infected with mycobacterium, causing the morbidity and mortality of 10 and 2 million indi...

Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is a global emergency. This study was conducted to determine the status of TB in selected countries. Methods: This comparative study was conducted in 5 countries. The values for the indicators of each country were extracted from the World Health Organization (WHO) Profile and 2015 World Population Data Sheet. Results...

Introduction: Service quality is the judgment of patients based on their perception of the services they have received. The perception will be compared with patients’ expectations in order to have a judgment about services quality. The aim of this study was to determine the gap analysis between expectation-perception of service quality from the pat...

Background and Aim: Assessing service quality is one of the basic requirements to develop outpatient service. There is no valid and reliable tool to measure quality of outpatient service, therefore this study was performed to determine dimensions and items for assessing service quality of outpatient in Iran. Materials and Methods: To determine d...

Background: Continuous quality improvement of the hospital services is a basic requirement of medical tourism industry. The different dimensions of hospital services quality are assessed constantly to improve the service of medical tourism. The aim of this study was to determine the services quality of medical tourism in private and public hospital...

Background and Objectives: Job satisfaction is the most important factor affecting the performance and productivity of the organization. The purpose of this study was to assess job satisfaction among staff of Jundishapur medical teaching hospitals; based on Herzberg's two-factor model. Material and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The sam...

Introduction: Modeling can be a useful tool to find out how the distributions of hospital length of stay (LOS) and the factors affecting the length of stay. The present study aims to determine factors affecting the length of stay and selecting suitable statistical models. Material and method: this is a cross - sectional study of 565 patients who...

Introduction Social participation is considered as a means of improving one’s quality of life, thus the study aimed at assessing the association between the quality of life and social participation in the elderly. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2016. The study population was selected from among the residents of a retirement ho...

Introduction Assessing service quality is one of the basic requirements to develop the medical tourism industry. There is no valid and reliable tool to measure service quality of medical tourism. This study aimed to determine the reliability and validity of a Persian version of medical tourism service quality questionnaire for Iranian hospitals. M...

Background Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death. The prevalence of cardiovascular diseases was reported to be 3,500 per 100,000. And it is predicted that these numbers will increase in the near future. By removing the main factors responsible for non-communicable diseases, cardiovascular disease can be prevented by 80%. Aim T...

Introduction Hearing loss is one of the most disabling impairments. Using a hearing aid as an attempt to improve the hearing problem can positively affect the quality of life for these people. This research was aimed to assess satisfaction of hearing impaired patients with their hearing aids regarding the employed technology and style. Materials a...

Introduction: Job satisfaction is one of the most challenging organizational concepts, and it is the basis of management policies to increase productivity and efficiency of the organization. The general health rate may affect job satisfaction in several ways. This study aimed to determine the association between job satisfaction and general health...

Introduction: Individual characteristics are important factors influencing organizational commitment. Also, committed human resources can lead organizations to performance improvement as well as personal and organizational achievements. This research aimed to determine the association between organizational commitment and personality traits among...

BACKGROUND: Examination time is a key factor determining the relative value of clinical physicians’ examination and care quality. Whereas commitment ‎to standard prescription principles by physicians increases the likelihood of proper treatment, its effectiveness and patients’ improvement. This study aimed to determine the relationship between outp...

Introduction: Organizational justice is an intricate concept that refers to fair and ethical conduct of individuals within organizations. No research has been conducted on the variables associated with organizational justice in rehabilitation clinics. Thus, the aim of this research was to determine the correlation between organizational justice an...

IDENTIFYING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT OF THE LIBRARIANS OF CENTRAL LIBRARIES IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES ABSTRACT Transformational leadership as a leadership style is able to create acceptable results in organizations, such as leaders cause empowerment and increase organizational commitment in the staff and th...

Introduction: The observance of standard prescription principles by physicians increases the likelihood of proper treatment, its effectiveness and patients’ recovery. The present study aims to explore the level of physicians’ observance of prescription standards while visiting outpatients referring to teaching hospitals in Ahvaz. Methods: This cro...

Background: Hearing loss is developing when age is rising. Initiation and progression rates of hearing loss vary among different individuals and groups. Objectives: The current study aimed to determine satisfaction of the elderly with their hearing aids in different types of hearing loss and comorbidities. Patients and Methods: The study was conduc...

The evaluation of subjective benefits and positive effects of hearing aids in daily is important for measuring the treatment outcome. The aim of this project was to investigate the degree of satisfaction of aged users with their hearing aids using the Satisfaction with Amplification in Daily Life (SADL) scale, which emphasizes non-auditory factors...

Background: Since the population of Iran is aging, there is a growing need for more information about the quality of life (QOL) of this group. Proper planning for this age group with the aim of increasing their quality of life depends on the identification of factors associated with QOL.. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine if t...

Background: Increasing nurses’ motivation is among the most important and complex nursing duties. Performance evaluation system could be used as a means to improve the quantity and quality of the human resources. Therefore, current research objected to evaluate the effect of final evaluation on job motivation from the perspective of nurses in Ahvaz...

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