Omid Khosravizadeh

• PhD Student of Healthcare Management
• Iran University of Medical Sciences

Background In addition to the establishment of screening procedures, it is important to identify the barriers and facilitators for promoting preventive behavior. Many studies have been conducted in the field of investigating the factors affecting Pap smear test uptake and the barriers related to it. However, a systematic approach is still needed. T...

Background and Aim: Breast cancer has been identified as the most common cancer and the fifth leading cause of cancer death in the world. Non-clinical risk factors such as socioeconomic status can lead to inequality in the outcomes of the disease. This study aimed to analyze the provincial socioeconomic inequality in the incidence of breast cancer...

Background Social marketing intervention is a strategy to improve intention and behavior in this field. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of determining the impact of social marketing intervention on Pap-smear test uptake. Methods The study conducted between June 5th 2023 and August 6th 2023. This study is registered in IRCT (code:...

Background Responsiveness is a critical dimension of public health, focussing on how health systems address the needs, preferences and expectations of the population. It plays a central role in improving and maintaining the population’s health by ensuring timely, equitable and patient-centred healthcare services. Objective In this study, we develo...

Introduction: By 2020, colorectal cancer accounted for 10% of global cancer incidence and 9.4% of cancer deaths. Apart from biomedical characteristics, socio-economic status can also play a role in inequality in the outcomes of this disease. In this account, this study aims to analyze the regional socio-economic disparities in the incidence of colo...

Background In the health system, hospitals are intricate establishments that offer vital medical services. Their resilience plays a crucial role in mitigating the societal repercussions of disasters. A hospital must possess the capacity to withstand risks, preserve its fundamental structure and operations, and enhance its preparedness by augmenting...

Background Responsiveness to the population’s non-clinical needs encompasses various dimensions, including responsive research and an educational outreach plan at the community level. This study aims to develop a community-responsive research model in the healthcare system to ensure the connection between community-identified health priorities and...

Background Responsiveness is relevant in the context of treatment and the provision of medical services. However, if we delve deeper into the subject, we must establish and develop responsiveness within the medical sciences education system. This study aims to identify the dimensions that significantly impact responsiveness in the medical education...

Various interventions have been investigated to improve the uptake of colorectal cancer screening. In this paper, the authors have attempted to provide a pooled estimate of the effect size of the BE interventions running a systematic review based meta-analysis. In this study, all the published literatures between 2000 and 2022 have been reviewed. S...

In this study, an attempt was made to estimate the aggregated proportion of Pap smear test uptake among women in Iran from 2012 to 2022 using meta-analysis. The data collection process involved reviewing records registered in databases between January 1, 2012, and September 11, 2022. The final data was analyzed using random effects models, and pote...

Background Breast self-examination is a simple, painless, confidential and inexpensive screening method for early diagnosis that does not require specialized tools and equipment. In this study, we have estimated the pooled percentage of breast self-examination (BSE) in Iranian women. Methods All the published literatures between 2012 and 2022 have...

The important role of prevention in controlling chronic diseases such as diabetes, the major impact of self-care behaviors as preventive behaviors, and the lower cost of self-care measures should be considered. Therefore, this study was conducted to systematically review and meta-analyze the status of diabetes self-care activities status in type 2...

Cancer is the second important cause of death worldwide. Cancer is one of the top health priorities in Iran. We aimed to study the socio-economic inequality of cancer incidence in Iran provinces. We conducted this cross-sectional study using provincial data. We obtained the required data from the statistical yearbook report, the Statistics Center R...

Introduction and purpose: In order to have more effective programs and social interventions controlling the burden of diseases, it is necessary for policy makers to have valid evidence about the role of socioeconomic determinants. The present study aimed to provide empirical evidence about the relationship of socioeconomic inequalities and the avai...

Background: Critical thinking is the ability to ask appropriate questions and gather relevant information. It enables rational judgment and problem-solving for physicians and nurses. For the first time, this study examined two major groups of caregivers at the patient's bedside in terms of the relationship between critical thinking and self-efficac...

Background: Nowadays, since many health care organizations are facing a crisis of declining productivity and labor force stagnation, productivity can be improved through identifying and strengthening the components affecting the labor force productivity and performance. Thus, the present study was aimed at determining the effect of intellectual cap...

Background: Medical equipment maintenance plays an important role in improving the equipment's function, increasing its effectiveness and efficiency, providing continuous health services, and improving the quality of services. This study is conducted to investigate the factors affecting medical equipment maintenance management. Methods: The present...

Aim & Background: Cost management is the most important factor affecting the economic performance of the hospital. Good management of costs in the short term stabilizes and balances the operating balance of the hospital and secures the hospital in terms of liquidity. Also, good management of costs in the long term makes the hospital financially sta...

Background: Hospital management style can affect various aspects of hospital performance. One of these aspects is the level of market orientation of the hospital. Therefore, the present study attempts to answer whether management style makes a difference in the degree market orientation of hospitals or not. Methods: This research is a descriptive-a...

Purpose In the time of the COVID-19 crisis, many physical, psychological and spiritual difficulties are imposed on the front line staff and overshadow their rights, resilience and retention. In addition, the loss of this important organizational resource imposes huge costs on the system. The purpose of this study is systemic review of the influenti...

BACKGROUND: The medication belief and appropriate and on-time medication usage are crucial determinants of diabetes control. The present systematic review has been conducted to examine the status of the medication beliefs of patients with type 2 diabetes based on a meta-analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study is a systematic review based on a m...

Context: One of the most important income sources of hospitals is the payment of insurance organizations, part of which is not paid as deductions in Iran. Studies have reported different values for insurance deductions, proposing various reasons. Objectives: The present study aimed to provide the published evidence of these deductions and their cau...

Background: Performance is the primary concern of every organizational manager, and achieving higher performance is a significant goal of every organization. Organizational silence may adversely affect organizational performance. Healthcare centers should pay special attention to this issue due to their different job descriptions and environments c...

Purpose It can be said that the most important function of the health system is to provide health-care services. This directly affects society’s health and justice. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first study that has meta-analyzed the percentage of health services utilization among Iranians to answer this question “How muc...

Background: Cancer is the second important cause of death worldwide. Cancer is one of the top health priorities in Iran. We aimed to study the socio-economic inequality of cancer incidence in Iran provinces. Methods: We conducted this cross-sectional study using provincial data. We obtained the required data from the statistical yearbook report, t...

Background The decision to outsource an activity is one of the most complex organizational decisions. This decision is also influenced by several factors and components. In order to facilitate and optimize it, for the first time in this study, a decision model for outsourcing medical service delivery in public hospitals has been developed. Methods...

Background: Reducing interpersonal contact has been one of the least expensive and most widely used COVID-19 control strategies. Objective: This systematic review has been conducted with the aim of identifying social distancing strategies and policies and their impact on the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: In order to compile this systematic revie...

Background: Identifying the key factors effective on outsourcing can play a significant role in helping healthcare decision makers to present solutions to improve the outsourcing situation. This study was conducted in order to systematically review the factors influencing the decision making to outsource the services of Iranian medical centers. Met...

IntroductionRacial implicit bias is an unconscious response and behavior that affects interpersonal interactions and clinical decision-making.AimsWe attempted to meta-analyze the scores of implicit association test (IAT) to estimate pooled quantity of implicit racial bias among medical graduates and studentsMethods As far as we know, our study is t...

The patient’s belief and knowledge about his or her illness is the most important factor of disease control; the aim of present study is to perform a systematic review-based meta-analysis of health belief and its dimension’s mean score in diabetic patients. The present systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted in 2020. Data were gathered by...

Objective: The length of stay is an important indicator of hospital performance and efficiency. Regarding the importance of the length of stay, this study aimed to design a structural model of the inpatients' length of stay in the educational and therapeutic health care facilities of Iran in order to identify the influencing dimensions. Methods:...

Background: In health economics, policymakers need to be aware of the individuals' sensitivity and reaction to change effective factors on the healthcare services demand. This study aimed to estimate the healthcare demand function and extract the price, income, and educational elasticity in Iran. Methods: A panel of macro data was used to estimate...

In the current competitive situation, hospitals are seeking to keep their position among patients. This study aimed to find factors influencing on the brand equity of hospitals.in the cross sectional study, Firstly, the factors affecting the brand equity were identified Subsequently, by holding the panel of experts, the effective factors were taken...

Background: The prerequisite for promoting safety culture is to assess the existing safety culture level of institutes, because safety precautions without appropriate evaluation increase costs and unforeseen risks. Objective: This study aimed to systematically review the status of patient safety culture from the perspective of clinical personnel...

Background: Self-efficacy and spiritual beliefs can be considered as strong motives for improving the quality of working. Due to the different job description and environment than other service sectors, medical centers need to pay attention to these factors. So, the present study is aimed at identifying the effect of spiritual intelligence componen...

Medical centers need branding approach to improve their position in patients’ minds. This study was carried out using mixed method. The participants included main experts, hospital managers and headquarters of the Ministry of Health. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview and a researcher-made questionnaire. Branding process was c...

Introduction: The awareness of the current compliance of Joint commission international standards is a prerequisite for their upgrading. The purpose of this study was to provide a systematic review of the evaluation of Iranian hospitals in accordance with International Joint Commission standard. Methods: The present systematic review was conducted...

Objective: Gastric cancer is one of the most common types of cancers, which will result in irreparable harm in the case of misdiagnosis or late diagnosis. The purpose of this study is to investigate the capability of data mining techniques and disease risk factor characteristics to predict and diagnose the gastric cancer. Methods: In this retros...

Background: Labor pain is one of the most severe pains that woman may experience during their lifetime. Objectives: This study aimed to systematically review and meta‑analyze studies into the effects of epinephrine on the duration of analgesia during childbirth and Apgar score. Methods: This systematic review was conducted in 2018. Data were collec...

Background & Aim: Nursing shortage is a growing global challenge in healthcare organizations. Promoting nurses’ organizational commitment may help alleviate nursing shortage. This study sought to evaluate the relationships between organizational commitment, job satisfaction, organizational justice, and self-efficacy among nurses. Materials & Meth...

Background & Aim: Nursing shortage is a growing global challenge in healthcare organizations. Promoting nurses' organizational commitment may help alleviate nursing shortage. This study sought to evaluate the relationships between organizational commitment, job satisfaction, organizational justice, and self-efficacy among nurses. Materials & Method...

Background: Stress has always been with human despite all the progress in science and technology. Stressful conditions reduce concentration and lead to the lack of focus. This can increase human errors and bring about catastrophe. The aim of this study is to present a model to increase safety climate by controlling job stress among the personnel of...

Background: Considering the increasing incidence of different cancers, use of modern technologies such as TTCC can make a dramatic change in treatment of these diseases. So, if the evolution strategy conflicts with the organizational culture, national culture, and organizational structure of experts in this field, resistance will rise. Objective: T...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and tobacco and alcohol usage as well as inappropriate diet are some risk factors for developing this cancer. On the other hand, breast self-examination is a simple, effective, and cheap method for screening and early detection of breast cancer that is accessible for most of women. The aim of this s...

Employees are the most valuable assets of an organization; therefore, it is very important to understand their behavior. In this regard, the present study was carried out in order to examine the effect of organizational climate on job involvement among nurses working in the teaching hospitals of Qazvin Province, Iran. The present descriptive analyt...

Background: Discharge with personal consent is considered as one of the main problems in hospitalization condition since many patients leave the hospital prematurely against the doctor’s advice. Thus, the aim of this study was to identify the factors affecting the discharge with personal satisfaction in selected teaching hospitals of Tehran Univers...

Background Patient safety culture plays an important role in healthcare systems, especially in chemotherapy and oncology departments (CODs), and its assessment can help to improve quality of services and hospital care. Objective This study aimed to evaluate and compare items and dimensions of patient safety culture in the CODs of selected teaching...

Background In today’s transforming world, increased productivity and efficient use of existing facilities are practically beyond a choice and become a necessity. In this line, attention to change and transformation is one of the affecting factors on the growth of productivity in organizations, especially in hospitals. Aim To examine the effect of...

Background and objective The efficiency and function of the pharmaceutical sector, as a vital portion of the health system, have a significant effect on intermediate and final indices of health. In this research, the structure of the pharmaceutical market in Iran was examined through the calculation of concentration indices in 2011. Methods In thi...

Background: Empowerment is one of the most effective techniques for improving productivity of employees and optimum use of their capacities and capabilities toward organizational goals. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate nurses' psychological empowerment in Iran. Methods: The required data were collected using keywords which...

Introduction The length of stay (LOS) in hospitals is a widely used and important criteria for evaluating hospital performance. The aim of this study was to determine factors affecting LOS in teaching hospitals of Qazvin Providence. Methods In this cross-sectional study, patients’ health records were randomly selected from archives in teaching hos...

Background: Despite advances in science and technology, human resources are of the major capital for organizations. Workforce retention is required to improve organizational efficiencies. Objective: Therefore, in this study, the relationship between organizational justice (as one of the most influential factors) and turnover intention was invest...

Background and Aim: Patient safety is a critical element of health care quality, and is a priority of health system that pursue to improve the quality of health services. This study aims to determine the attitude the nurses about patient safety in hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: Nurses employed in 7 emerg...

Background: Human resources, especially medical staff is one of the main components of health care system and organizational development. The purpose of this study was to estimate the required nurses for hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences based on the models of the World Health Organization and Levine. Methods: This study...

Background: The importance of safety in hospitals can be studied from different angles since hospital is a critical environment for incidents. Assessment of occupational accidents in hospitals can prevent their recurrence and maintain human and financial resources. This study aimed to investigate the occupational accidents among staff in a hospital...

Introduction: Hospital infections prolong patient hospitalization, necessitate additional treatment, increase mortality rate, raise hospital expenses, and even reduce the level of health in the society. The purpose of this research was to study hospital infections in selected hospitals of Qazvin. Me-thods and Materials: This was an analytic-cross-s...

Introduction: While hospital care has always been one of the basic requirements, Payment Method of treatment is an important factor to create equity in utilization of care. On the other hand, length of stay is one of the key indicators in hospital performance showing the efficiency of hospital care in resource consumption. The purpose of this study...

In order to improve the ethical climate in health care organizations, it is important to apply a valid measure. This study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Hospital Ethical Climate Survey (HECS) and to assess nurses' perceptions of the ethical climate in teaching hospitals of Iran. A cross-sectional stu...

Recognition of career motivators and understanding of managers and employees in prioritizing them, in order to plan incentives for this understanding, can play an important role in increasing productivity and creating harmony between the goals of the organization and staff. This study was done to survey the importance of career motivating factors f...

Human resources are frequently accepted as the most crucial predictors of organization AL survival and encouraged by practitioners and managers. Studying the history of the development of industrial societies suggests that skilled and trained manpower has indispensable effect in the transformation process of traditional society to an industrial soc...

Background: One of the most important indexes of the health care quality is patient’s satisfaction and it takes place only when there is a process based on management. One of these processes in the health care organizations is the appropriate management of the waiting time process. The aim of this study is the systematic analyzing of the outpatient...