Studies indicate that using behavior changing interventions may improve medical record documentation. This study aimed to examine the effect of feedback and incentive mechanisms on medical record documentation among surgery residents in Kashan University of Medical Sciences.
This quasi-experimental study examined the effect of feedback and incentive mechanisms on 19 surgery residents’ medical record documentation in Kashan Shahid Beheshti Hospital in 2013-14. During three phases of pre-intervention, post-intervention and 3 months after intervention, five medical records for each resident (total=95) were selected and assessed using a checklist. Data were analyzed by means of t-test and Wilcoxon test.
There were significant changes in surgical residents’ medical record documentation during pre- intervention, post-intervention three months after intervention (P=0.0001). Findings showed that the rate of documentation in medical history form, course of disease, reception and discharge summary, and surgery report had significant changes after the interventions (P= 0.0001).
Since the results showed that feedback and incentive mechanisms had positive impacts on improving residents’ documentation behavior, it is suggested that residents’ documentation performance should be regularly assessed and feedbacks be provided for other residents and stakeholders.

How to implement business process in many organizations, especially government agencies, is described through documentation in the form of announcements, guidelines and circulars. Increasing the quality of process documentation makes it possible to avoid individual intentions, confusion and deliberate or unwanted inappropriate errors, and thus result in a better business process performance. Despite the importance of document quality in business process performance, very few models are available to determine the desirable level of documentation quality indicators and literature focuses more on defining information quality indicators. In response to this need in the public administration, in this paper, a model is proposed to determine the level of desirable quality of information indicators of documentation in business processes in accordance with process characteristics. This model is based on data collected from fifty-one processes in government agencies that have appropriate qualitative documentation. Collected data was clustered into five groups of homogeneous processes using one-time clustering based on “process characteristics” and one-time based on “process characteristics” and “information quality indicators of each process's documentation” together. Then the pattern in the “information quality indicators of process's documentation” is identified in each group.

Experience documentation is one of the important resources for knowledge preservation, development and transfer and its realization in an organization without knowing the status of experience documentation is impossible. Thus this study was conducted with two purposes of developing integrated experience documentation theory and examining its status from the viewpoint of experts in a public organization. This research is a descriptive and by analytical and research methods. In order to perform the first purpose of research, after designing research questions, researches systematic search was carried out based on relevant key words from the six internal and the eleven external  databases (from beginning to end of April 2017) and 29 research selected of 111 researches purposefully sampling. By reviewing the researches, concepts related with the experience documentation were extracted, and then concepts categorized based on shared contents and re- categorized into phenomenon, context, cause, intervening conditions, strategy and consequence. Then relation of phenomenon, context, cause, intervening conditions, strategy and consequence were designed in the form of model and with writing of propositions; integrated experience documentation theory were designed and fit of the theory was investigated and confirmed. In order to perform the second purpose of research, a questionnaire was developed based on the above theory. Then, 42 experts from a public organization in Isfahan city were selected through purposive sampling and their views on the status of the experience documentation were obtained. Results of dependent t-Test showed that experience documentation in the organization in the present study are lower than the desired status. The results of Friedman test indicated that the rating of the components of the experience documentation in the present status would include the nature (i.e. phenomenon, context, cause), consequence, substructure (i.e. positive intervening conditions), barrier (i.e. negative intervening conditions) and strategy of experience documentation, while in the desired status, it should include consequence, substructure, strategy, nature and barrier of experience documentation.

Observing documentation of hadith (isnad), has witnessed ups and downs at different eras, among Shia and Sunni scholars. Over the past centuries some Sunni scholars such as Ibn Taymiyyah and Suyuti have accused Shia of neglecting isnad, and therefore condemning them for it. Contemporary Sunni scholars have further claimed that observing documentation (isnad) is specific to Sunnis from which the Shia have copied since the fourth century on. This article has rejected these accusations based on the following arguments, citing examples for each: 1) Ahl-ol-Bayt’s emphasis on documentation and the narrators’ qualities, 2) Ahl-ol-Bayt’s observance of documentation 3) compilation of documented (musnad) hadith and rijal works before the fourth century, 4) Shiite hadith scholars’ practical efforts in documentation, 5) and Shiite scholars’ views on documentation. These evidences shows that the origin of such an accusation is ignorance and bias on part of the opponents

Observing documentation of hadith (isnad), has witnessed ups and downs at different eras, among Shia and Sunni scholars. Over the past centuries some Sunni scholars such as Ibn Taymiyyah and Suyuti have accused Shia of neglecting isnad, and therefore condemning them for it. Contemporary Sunni scholars have further claimed that observing documentation (isnad) is specific to Sunnis from which the Shia have copied since the fourth century on. This article has rejected these accusations based on the following arguments, citing examples for each: 1) Ahl-ol-Bayt’s emphasis on documentation and the narrators’ qualities, 2) Ahl-ol-Bayt’s observance of documentation 3) compilation of documented (musnad) hadith and rijal works before the fourth century, 4) Shiite hadith scholars’ practical efforts in documentation, 5) and Shiite scholars’ views on documentation. These evidences shows that the origin of such an accusation is ignorance and bias on part of the opponents.

The purpose of the present survey is to study the status of knowledge documentation in SCU registrars from the registrars’ employees’ viewpoints in SCU. The research is a survey of a descriptive-analytical type. The questionnaires were distributed among 110 registrars’ employees in SCU. To analyze the data, some descriptive and inferential statistical tests were employed. Findings indicate that the documentation status is relatively desirable, and the employees’ awareness of documentation values is high. Based on employees’ viewpoints, five instructional, behavioral, technological, legal, and structural infrastructures and factors were found necessary for documentation. Transmission of employees' experiences to others before retirement, experienced registrars’ employees privilege of intellectual property rights, publication of a documented manual of knowledge and important actions performed in registrars, and the publication of employees’ documented knowledge in specialized periodicals or as books were among mechanisms identified to improve and develop the documentation system in registrars. Keywords: documentation, experienced employees, registrars’ employees, knowledge management, SCU

Accurate and complete documentation of nursing reports is the precondition for evidence-based care and one of the most important duties of nurses. Besides، it has a decisive r ole in the quality of nursing care and improves the relationship with other health team members. The object of the present survey was to evaluate the structure and content of nursing reports and reasons of incorrect reporting in Kashan Shahid Behashti hospital in 2011. In this cross-sectional study، 140 nursing documents were evaluated. The records were randomly selected from the Intensive care unit، internal medicine ward، and surgery ward. A checklist designed according to the eleven principles of nursing documentation and had 38 items was used in order to evaluate the quality of nursing documentation.. In the checklist، 30 items referred the content and 8 regarded the structure of documentation. To pinpoint barriers in nursing documentation، a previously self-designed questionnaire was applied. The obtained data was analyzed using SPSS software (V: 11. 5) and statistical tests and Chi-square at the significant level P<0. 05. Among the documents 21. 4% had a favorable quality، 53. 6% had moderate quality، while the quality of 25% was weak. In the hospital mentioned، t otal content quality of nursing documents was low but that of structure was acceptable. According to nurses، nursing staff shortage، fatigue، high workload، and the documentation''s lack of impact on employment promotion and nurses'' giving priority to patients'' care rather than documentation، occupational problems، lack of knowledge of the principles of writing correct documentation، and not knowing legal consequences were the most reasons for or barriers against accurate and due documentation. The content of nursing documents was not satisfactory and requires improvement.

Numerous factors affect on quality of nursing documentation. Continuous evaluation and identifying factors affecting documentation have a significant role on improving the quality of documentation. This study aimed at Nurses’ organizational behavior and their quality of documentation in teaching hospitals of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in 2013. The study population were nurses in teaching hospitals of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences. From a total of 552 nurses, 215 nurses were selected using random sampling. Three standard questionnaires and three Self-made check list were used for data collection. Validity of the tools was measured using comments of professors and experts and reliability of the questionnaire was measured using Cranach’s alpha. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS version 16. Pearson, ANOVA, and T-student were used to assess relationship between variables. Levels of nursing education and type of employment stipulated in the employment contract had significant effect on the score of documentation (P<0.01). In addition, hospitals and various departments had significant differences in the documentation scores. From the other side, job satisfaction, social capital and organizational citizenship behavior have significant positive correlation with the total score of nursing documentation (P<0.05). Nurses organizational behavior including job satisfaction, social capital, and organizational citizenship behavior, can have an impact on the quality of their documentation. Therefore, hospital managers and supervisors can ensure quality of nursing documentation following improving organizational behavior.

Experience, being the result of successes and failures, is by itself the essence of organizational learning. Experience documentation is one of the important resources for knowledge development and experience transfer. Scientific system of experience documentation and documentation of Iranian managers experiences, gives some hopes for the localized knowledge management. Public and private executives have valuable experiences; and its documentation adds to th management prosperity in Iran. So identifying behavioral and cultural factors and mechanisms in the process of experience documentation is very important that the article addresses this. First the literature is reviwed and the conceptual model is provided, the study's variables and identified, experts, views are collected and analyzed by a survey. Finally some suggestions are presented base on the study's results.

Examining the quality and the quantity of the visual architectural and urban design documents.
Method/Research Design: Analysis is based on archival documents, archaeological reports, and library resources.
Findings: Findings show differences in the number of visual documents from different periods. Most of the visual documents found belong to the ancient times, mostly from Elamid and Jiroft civilizations. Some also represent Urartu and Medes architectures. In the post-Islamic era, the quality of visual documentation has improved. Documentation of the Ilkhanid period (13th century) is more of urban design. Since the middle Qajar period onwards, the methods of documentation have developed technically. However, what we can safely call systematic documentation only started in the 20th century.
Iranian visual documentation is diverse. Tendency towards realism is especially evident since the 20th century. Some documents are produced to reflect a physical concept and others are generated for other purposes.