Clinical Medicine
Maryam Milani Fard; Anita Amini; Masoumeh Shafie Aghol
Abstract
Introduction: Evaluation in health services has a long history. The application of quality standards to hospitals or other facilities first became common in the United States and gradually spread to other countries.Materials: Evaluation and inspection of health care services in the form of different ...
Read More
Introduction: Evaluation in health services has a long history. The application of quality standards to hospitals or other facilities first became common in the United States and gradually spread to other countries.Materials: Evaluation and inspection of health care services in the form of different approaches (ISO, superiority models, accreditation and peer group) are used voluntarily or compulsorily around the world and are gradually expanding. Root approaches to industries or sectorsHealth returns. There is a concern that all approaches should take into account the use of valid standards, quality improvement, transparency and public accountability.Discussion and Conclusion: All methods are dynamic and evolving, but the validity of some of them is faster. At the same time, their origins are different. There is a kind of convergence between them.
Basic Medicine
Anita Amini; Hamidreza Shahpoori Arani; Maryam Milani Fard
Abstract
Aim: This study was conducted in order to systematically collect existing articles and describe and analyze the different fields of medical tourism including the definitions of medical tourisms, motivations of medical tourists, marketing in medical tourism, and ethical issues in medical tourism and its ...
Read More
Aim: This study was conducted in order to systematically collect existing articles and describe and analyze the different fields of medical tourism including the definitions of medical tourisms, motivations of medical tourists, marketing in medical tourism, and ethical issues in medical tourism and its impact on the health system.Methods: The current systematic review followed the principles of the “Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews” guideline. all manuscripts related to medical tourism were deeply searched by the two reviewers using the related keywords including “health tourism”, “medical tourism terms”, “stem-cell tourism”, “dental tourism”, “reproductive tourism” and “transplant tourism” in the international manuscript databases such as Web of knowledge, PubMed, Emerald, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar. Results: The findings show the same definition of medical tourism in various articles and motivations of medical tourists. However, there is a wide range of principles related to medical tourism in terms of benefits and its consequences in studies, so that most studies in developing countries reflect the benefits of medical tourism and most studies in advanced countries reflect the consequences of medical tourism. Conclusion: The subject of medical tourism is different according to the policies and programs of each country, and conducting accurate and comprehensive research in the country in order to clarify the reality of the issue is necessary.
)
)