Journal of Health Information Management
Year:2020 | Volume:16 | Issue:6 (70)|Papers Count:8

Access to proper health information is the right of all individuals, which in turn can facilitate the self-care, and provide prevention and conscious dealing with problems caused by diseases. But some obstacles such as physicians’ impatience and lack of time for patient education, poor communication skills (by patients and physicians), lack of common language between the patients and physicians, and ignorance of patients' information needs1 may disrupt the transmission of proper information from the clinical team to the patients. All of them can lead to the forgetting of much of the information received by the patient after a short time, and ultimately leading to a reduction in adherence to medical advice and adverse health outcomes and imposing costs on the patient and healthcare system...

Introduction: The emergency ward is an important part of a hospital given its central role in the health system. Undoubtedly, the use of efficient human resources in this field can boost the quality of services provided and thus patients' satisfaction. Therefore, this study is carried out aiming to determine the attitudes of physicians and nurses towards the role of the emergency medicine specialists on the performance of the emergency wards. Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in the emergency department of educational hospitals in Tehran in 2019. Based on the cluster sampling method, 9 hospitals were selected and 501 nurses and physicians working in the emergency department participated in this study. A researcher-made questionnaire was employed to gather data and analyses were performed using t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and Pearson correlation coefficient tests. Results: Based on the findings, the attitude of the participants towards the role of the emergency medicine specialists on patient safety, emergency performance indicators, quality of emergency services, and emergency ward management were favorable. In addition, expertise, organizational position, gender, and age were effective on the attitude of the participants towards the role of the emergency medicine specialists in the emergency ward (P = 0. 001). Conclusion: The results revealed that the attitude of physicians and nurses of emergency ward towards the role of the emergency medicine specialist was desirable. According to the results, physicians showed more favorable attitude compared to nurses towards the presence of an emergency medicine specialist.

Introduction: Research journals are costly and government-dependent services. Therefore, this study is carried out with the aim to determine the cost of publishing an article in selected journals of Yazd University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran, through the activity-based costing (ABC) techniques. Methods: In this descriptive study, in order to calculate the cost of publishing an article in three scientific journals of Yazd University of Medical Sciences, initially, the process of publishing an article was identified and then the primary activities were uncovered. Moreover, the secondary activities were identified through reviewing manuscripts, observation, and interviewing the process owners. The cost centers related to the primary and secondary activities were identified and the cost data related to these cost centers were uncovered from the financial documents; this way, the cost of article publication was calculated. Results: The cost for the Journal of Food Quality and Hazards Control, Journal of Toloo-e-Behdasht, and Journal of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences was calculated to be as 17131509 Rials, 8337468 Rials, and 5343960 Rials, respectively. The editing and layout and initial review steps were the costliest among the steps for publishing an article. Furthermore, the highest percentage of total cost of the primary and secondary activities was related to the cost of human resources. Conclusion: Initial review, editing, and layout steps are costly in the initial activities of the journals. Given that the human resource costs are the major cost of publishing an article, improving human resource (HR) performance can be effective in reducing costs.

Introduction: Although the concept of facet analysis has a long background in the classification and information retrieval systems, the use of facet analysis approach in information retrieval systems has been associated with drawbacks. One of these drawbacks is lack of proper attention to the user as the main stakeholder of the system. In this study, a method is presented for appropriate facet extraction in the modern information retrieval systems. Methods: In order to perceive the need of users and achieve the facets of gynecology and obstetrics, the Contractual Content Analysis method with a qualitative approach was employed. First, the information needs of the user group were identified after having interviews with 14 specialists in the fields of gynecology and obstetrics. Then, the information needs were classified with the help of specialists in the subject area and a facet was attributed to each stage. An expert group consisting of eight subject-area specialists and eight specialists in knowledge and information Science evaluated the efficiency of the extracted facets; this way, the agreement was evaluated based on the total agreement formula. Results: Based on the codes extracted from the interviews related to determining the information needs of stakeholders in the domains of gynecology and obstetrics, 23 facets were identified, 9 of which were identified as proper facets including Age groups, Organ, Therapeutics, diagnosis, Disease, symptoms or Finding, risk factor, Complication, Prognosis by the experts through receiving a coefficient of agreement above 80%. Conclusion: Facet extraction of information retrieval systems based on the user-oriented approach converts the facets from general to specialized states. In this case, the facets are different for the users of each specialized domain in the user interface; thus, the specialized user interfaces would be formed.

Introduction: The depth and extent of information available in the current scientific and research community has fostered a rich opportunity to capitalize on the information. In tandem, the bioinformatics is a relatively new field of science, which plays an important role in biological studies and has attracted much attention in various fields such as information technology (IT), mathematics, and modern biological sciences. Accordingly, it seems unavoidable to review studies in this field. This study is carried out aiming to determine the status of articles published in the area of bioinformatics based on the Clarivate database. Methods: This descriptive study was performed by a scientometrics method. The study statistical population included all articles in the bioinformatics field at the Clarivate database from 1970 to 2018. Data collection was conducted through the same database. Excel statistical software was used for data analysis. Results: The trend of growth in bioinformatics articles at Clarivate Database was increasing from 1970 to 2018, with a total articles reaching 53806 records. In these articles, the most active areas were identified as subject areas of biochemistry and molecular biology (BMB), computer sciences, biotechnology, genetics heredity, and mathematical computational biology. The most active countries were the United States, China, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The highest number of articles was dedicated to Zhang Y, Wang Y, Wang J, Li Y, and Li J. The universities of California and Harvard in the United States and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have published the highest number of articles. A great number of articles has been published in PLOS ONE journal. Conclusion: Iran ranks 22 out of 164 countries, which seems favorable to the global status. In view of that, it is possible to reach a better position by paying more attention to studies in this area.

Introduction: Co-word analysis is used to identify the intellectual structure governing the research field and uncover the research aspects. The main purpose of this study is to visualize the human papillomavirus (HPV) conceptual network. Methods: The 17278 keywords extracted from the 13249 articles on the HPV indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database from 2014-2018 constituted the study samples. The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) was used to identify the keywords to determine the search strategy. Results: 126 repeated keywords with high frequency were identified, the most frequent of which was cervical cancer. Hierarchical clustering of findings led the researchers to 14 subject clusters, the biggest of which being HPV symptoms and disease with 30 keywords. In order to gain a more comprehensive insight into the structure of the studied subjects, the two-dimensional mapping method was used. The two most common co-word keywords were selected from each cluster. Conclusion: As suitable tool for identifying the most relevant subjects and concepts, co-word occurrence analysis could discover the intellectual structure of the HPV research field. Regarding the frequency of clusters and keywords, HPV research has a close connection with general medical research fields such as prevention and treatment.

Introduction: When a website has an appropriate information architecture, it can be efficient and successful in responding to the information needs of users. The present study aims to evaluate website of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, based on information architecture. Methods: This was a descriptive-survey study performed on Shiraz University of Medical Sciences website. Data collection and analysis were carried out by direct observation method using checklists for four subsystems of information architecture, namely organization, labeling, navigation, and search. Results: The overall organization of the website was based on the organization chart. The site navigation system showed the users which website they were navigating, but it did not explicitly show all the navigated levels. Although the search system displayed the total number of search results to the user and highlighted the input query in the retrieved content, many of its features as logical operators, auto-complete or auto-suggestions, and sorting search results were not active. Conclusion: The website is relatively poor from the information architecture standpoint. The search and organization dimensions were weak, and the labeling and navigation dimensions were mediocre. The results of continuous evaluation and study of the website information architecture can be used to optimize the website design while highlighting the existing weaknesses and shortcomings.

Introduction: A green hospital is established to increase competitiveness, productivity, and cost savings to save resources and energy. This study is performed to identify and classify factors determining a green hospital. Methods: The five-step guideline of the University of York, York, England, for conducting systematic scoping reviews of the field of study was employed in this study. Searching for foreign and domestic scientific databases in both English and Persian, with a time limit from 2015 to 2019 was performed using keywords including criteria, dimensions, components, and approaches to green or eco-friendly hospitals. Finally, this study was carried out by reviewing 25 articles published in Iran and abroad in the field of green hospital which were selected out of 10493 articles. Results: Green criteria were identified in 15 dimensions and five environmental, economic, social, health, and novelty categories. The data collection indicated the method for collecting data and the data interpretation addressed analyzing and processing the data collected. Conclusion: In this study, different criteria for a green hospital deployment pattern in five environmental, economic, social, health, and innovation categories were obtained. Green hospital standards are a good model for establishing an environmentally sound health care.