Hospital Practices and Research

Evidence-Based Management and its Application in the Hospital Management Process

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Mohsen Saberi Isfeedvajani

Medicine, Quran and Hadith Research Center & Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.15171/hpr.2018.08

The term “evidence-based” has been raised in healthcare and has become an important issue for clinicians, managers, and researchers. While clinicians are encouraged by the leaders and top management of health systems and hospitals to adopt an evidence-based approach in treating patients, these leaders and managers have not applied this approach to their own managerial practices... (Read more...)

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