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Accreditation means systematic evaluation of health service centers with specific standards. One of the most important goals of the accreditation process is to improve patient safety. Patient safety visits are one of the most important standards for improving safety. One of the ways to increase the effectiveness of visits is holding feedback sessions.

The present study was conducted with the aim of assessing the effect of feedback provision on improving patient safety indices based on the hospital accreditation model in Shahid Rahnemoon Hospital, Yazd.

The present study is a semi-experimental study with a before-and-after design that was conducted in Shahid Rahnemoon Hospital, Yazd, from September to December 2021 and January to August 2022. After each visit, formal feedback sessions were held with the attendance of patient safety team members and officials of the visited wards/units. Evaluation indicators included patient safety indicators in accreditation standards, such as error reporting, rate of unwanted events, and patient safety culture score. These were measured before and after feedback. The tools used were the patient safety standards evaluation checklist based on the accreditation model, the patient safety culture questionnaire, and other indicators extracted using documentation. The Patient Safety Culture Evaluation Questionnaire was completed by 360 nurses working in the hospital in the form of a census. Analysis was done using descriptive statistical tests and paired t-tests with STATA 14.2 software.

Based on the results of the study, safety feedback was provided to increase patient safety indicators in different departments and units of hospitals [t = - 4.8652, w/df = 10, P = 0.0007, (P = 0.05)]. A significant difference was observed in the amount of error reporting (P = 0.031) and patient safety (P < 0.001) before and after the intervention. The degree of compliance with the dimensions of the patient safety culture had a statistically significant difference before and after the intervention (P < 0.001).

Providing a safety feedback program had a significant positive effect on the cons umption and consequences of the patient’s safety culture. Therefore, conducting regular safety visits and setting up a direct feedback program to each department/unit after the visit, and the follow-up of corrective measures, will lead to an increase in patient safety standards.

Aging is accompanied by the gradual loss of teeth, which can cause several orofacial changes. This study aimed to compare panoramic radiomorphometric indices between dentate and totally edentulous patients.

One hundred panoramic radiographs were analyzed to measure six indices using Clinview 9.3 software: the gonial angle (GA), antegonial angle (AGA), condylar height (CH), ramus height (RH), mental index (MI), and mandibular cortical index (MCI). An independent sample t-test and Chi-square was used to compare the means of the measured data between dentate and edentate subjects and genders.

In both genders, dentate people had greater left CH (p=0.05) and left GA (p=0.03). Men had greater RH in the dentate and edentate groups (p<0.001). No correlation was found between groups and genders in MCI scores.

CH index assessment as the function of the masticatory muscles and GA as residual ridge resorption were decreased in edentulous people. The findings highlight the importance of oral hygiene education and prosthetic rehabilitation of the edentulous.

 The most important factor representing the performance and utilization of hospital services are hospital indicators.

 The aim of study was comparison performance indices before and after health reform plan in Kermanshah and compared with the standard of the Iranian Ministry of Health.

 the study was comparative and descriptive-analytical that performed cross-sectional in 2017 and conducted in seven educational hospitals in Kermanshah. The data were related to 37 indices in five areas from hospitals that were submitted to the Department of Statistics in Deputy of Treatment. The data were collected using data extraction form. The validity of the form was confirmed by 7 experts. Data analyzed using SPSS 20.

 results showed that comparing indices of bed and hospital stay, patient indices, and indicators for outpatient and inpatient department services from para-clinical services except endoscopic increased and the mortality indices decreased. Comparing indices with Pabon-laso and standards show that status of some indices for several years before and one year after health reform plan were in unfavorable condition.

 results showed that the implementation of the health reform plan may have caused changes in most of the indicators, but these changes were significant in a few number of indices. So it is needed that policymakers evaluate indices periodically.

Public – Private Partnership can increase the efficiency of health care in hospitals that is the main aim of a good management in a healthcare sector. The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance and the efficiency indices of important wards of Hasheminejad Kidney Center as a public hospital from 2004 to 2012 in order to measure the advantages of this partnership.

This practical and cross-sectional study was performed in winter 2014. The performance and efficiency indices (2004-2012) were calculated and drawn in Excel software. Then, the researcher investigated the causes of increasing or decreasing of indices and analyzed them based on the evidences.

It was shown that the performance and efficiency indices were increasing during these years, and the causes of the slight decrease in some cases were investigated.

It was concluded that all hospitals by applying some model of partnership will be able to change their hospitals, if they apply this partnership systematically and based on the scientific and experimental model.