ABSTRACT
Background: Medical diagnostic laboratories and accuracy and precision of laboratory test results play a decisive role in improving services delivery to patients. Therefore, special attention to the quality of medical health services
activities appears to be essential. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of laboratory of Isa ibn Maryam hospital of Esfahan due to the concept of quality management and carried out by using a 360 degree feedback approach
Methods: The current paper is a cross-sectional study which was conducted in Isa ibn Maryam hospital in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Simple random sampling is used and totally 42 patients and hospital staff [laboratory customers] were selected. The data collection tool was a self-made questionnaire and data were analyzed using Microsoft Excell 2010
Results: Based on the findings, the highest mean score of evaluating performance was related to pediatric department with a score of 5/50 and the lowest mean was related to hygiene and the infection control unit was with a score of 5/42
Conclusion: The most important flaws in each performance evaluation system are personal taste orientation and applying personal views. Thus, it may be possible to minimize the deployment of personal opinion in evaluations by using a 360 degree feedback approach
ABSTRACT
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis [NASH], a progressive stage of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease [NAFLD], is characterized by steatosis with inflammation. Investigations have suggested that oxidative stress may play an important role in the progress of NAFLD to NASH. To provide further insights into beneficial effects of antioxidants in NASH prevention, we employed two manganese-superoxide dismutase/catalase mimetics, manganese N,N-bis[salicyldene] ethylene diamine chloride [EUK-8] and manganese-3-methoxy N,N-bis[salicyldene] ethylenediamine chloride [EUK-134], as two salen representatives and vitamin C as the standard antioxidant Experimental NASH was induced in Male N-Mary rats by feeding a methionine/choline-deficient [MCD] diet to rats for 10 weeks. The rats [n = 5, 30 mg/kg/day] were randomly assigned to receive vitamin C, EUK-8, EUK-134 or vehicle orally Administration of salens together with the MCD diet reduced the serum aminotransferases, glutathione transferase and alkaline phosphatase, cholesterol, and LDL contents. In addition, the EUK-8 and EUK-134 improved NASH pathological features in liver of MCD-fed rats. EUK-8 and EUK-134 supplementation reduces NASH-induced abnormalities, pointing out that antioxidant strategy could be beneficial for prevention of NASH