Volume & Issue: Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2015 

Research Paper

A Nurse Scheduling Model under Real Life Constraints

Pages 1-8

Sedigheh Azimi; Mohammad Mehdi Sepehri; Masoud Etemadian


Cultural Competence: A Survey of Hospital Managers

Pages 15-20

Ahmadreza Raeisi; Mohanna Rajabi; Mahmoud Keyvanara


Clinical Audit of Emergency Department Triage: The Impact of Interventional Strategies

Pages 27-32

Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi; Mahboub Pour-Aghayi; Leila Abdollahi; Amin Daemi; Soheila Sherkati; Rouhollah Yaghoubi


Comparison of Six-Month Patency Rate in Ulnar-Basilic Fistula and Radio-Cephalic Fistula for Hemodialysis Access

Pages 33-36

Alireza Khazaei; Mehdi Ramezani; Rooholla Bakhshi; Mehdi Mohammadi; Abdolvahhab Pourmahmudian


Challenges and Potential Drivers of Accreditation in the Iranian Hospitals

Pages 37-42

Mohammad Saadati; Khadijeh Yarifard; Saber Azami-Agdash; Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi


Brief Report

The Effect of Training in Promotion of Hand Hygiene in Hospital

Pages 43-46

Ali Majidpour; Sayyed Gholamreza Fanaei; Mohamad Hussein Behzad Moghadam; Ehteram Ahmadi; Najmeh Gazvini; Marjan Daneshvar Tehrani; Abolfazl Adhami; Somayeh Soleymanzadeh Moghadam