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 Background: Patient satisfaction is an important concept of sovereignty as one of the important areas of clinical services. Patient's views on quality of service area, is taken as an image of our strengths and weaknesses. Applying patients' good ideas can improve quality of services and reduce imposing additional costs on hospital .

 Method: This study was a descriptive cross-sectional trial consising of patients admitted in burn hospital during the first nine month of 2011. Sample size was 542 patients having been selected from discharged patients by appropriate allocation. Data were gathered by the questionnaire having 24 questions, which was then assessed using a likret rating scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS 18 and Amos 16 and descriptive and inferential methods.

 Resulth: overall 81/2% of the clients alleged good satisfaction18/6% moderate and 0/2% poor satisfaction. Most satisfaction related to medical services(93/3%) and lowest satisfaction was associated with facilities(80%).

 Conclusions: according to the results of this study, operating room, facilities and services had greatest impact on patient's satisfaction and there was a significant relationship between gender, education level & length of admission & overall satisfaction.

  Background: Hepatitis B (HB) is one of the main health problems. Over 400 million people worldwide have been evaluated as infected patients or chronic carriers. Health care workers (HCWs) are of higher risk for infectious diseases including HBV infected patients. This study aims to evaluate the rate of HBS antibody among the HCWs of Shahid Sadoughi Burn hospital in Yazd.

  Methods: This cross sectional descriptive study was conducted on 52 staff of the hospital approved vaccinated against HBV. HBS antibody was measured by ELISA in blood samples. Anti HBS titer of more than 10 lu/ml was considered positive. Collected data were analyzed by SPSS (16) software using descriptive data analysis and Fisher exact test.

  Results: Among the 52 vaccinated staff of the hospital, 90.4% subjects had positive titers but 9.6% were negative. Females had higher titers (96%) than the males (85.2%).

  There was not a statically significant correlation between age, sex, accurate vaccination intervals and titer of HBS antibody, (P >0.05), but a positive correlation was found between duration after the last dose of vaccine and titer of HBS antibody (P= 0.046)

  Conclusion: More than 90% of the HCWS had immunity against HBV. Considering the importance of health care workers in transmission of blood born infections, a booster dose of hepatitis B vaccine should be delivered to those not having acceptable HBS antibody titer against HBV.