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Zhaleh Abdi

Researcher at Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Publications -  41
Citations -  453

Zhaleh Abdi is an academic researcher from Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 31 publications receiving 250 citations. Previous affiliations of Zhaleh Abdi include National Institute for Health Research & Iran University of Medical Sciences.

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The culture of patient safety in an Iranian intensive care unit.

TL;DR: Assessment of the safety climate through six domains revealed several safety challenges including underreporting, failure to learn from errors, lack of speaking up, low job satisfaction among nurses and ineffective nurse-physician communication.
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Patterns of Obesity and Overweight in the Iranian Population: Findings of STEPs 2016.

TL;DR: There was a considerable difference in the geographical pattern of the prevalence of obesity and overweight in males and females and a geographical pattern at provincial level, where the level of BMI increases among populations ranging from the southeastern to the northwestern regions of the country.
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Clinical governance implementation in a selected teaching emergency department: a systems approach

TL;DR: In this article, a cyclic set of purposeful activities designed to explore the situation and find relevant changes to improve the quality of care in a teaching emergency department (ED) is presented.
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The impact of health reform in Iran on catastrophic health expenditures: Equity and policy implications.

TL;DR: While financial protection of the poor in Iran has improved due to the HTP, more work is needed to achieve UHC in Iran, and more emphasis should be placed on shifting away from OOP co-payments for health financing to progressive prepayment mechanisms to facilitate better sharing of financial risks across population groups.