Book review: The full extent: An inquiry into nature and destiny

An Inquiry into the Nature of Hallucination

I A peripheral process often of a pathological nature, a state of dissociation and a subexcitement of secondary sensory and ideomotor elements constitute the main conditions of hallucinations. The peripheral pathological process and the state of dissociation are requisite to the formation of the hallucinatory percept, while the content of such percepts are given by the systems of sensory-motor ...

An Inquiry into the Patient Safety Management Patterns: A Review Study

Background and aims: Patient safety, as one of the main components of the health care quality, impliesavoiding any injury and damage to the patient when providing health care services. In other words,patient safety means his or her safety against any adverse and harmful event when receiving health careservices. Based on the above-mention explanations, the present study was con...

An inquiry into the concept of information poverty

Background and Aim: The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of information poverty, its levels and its causes in society    Methods: The article is a review-analytical paper.  Results: The findings show that information poverty is part of the larger problem of poverty and results from socioeconomic, educational and infrastructural issues. Information poverty can be discussed at mac...

Logic, Truth and Inquiry (Book Review)

An Investigation on the Nature and Extent of Occurrence of Errors of Commission in Hospital Prescriptions

Correct prescription writing habits could have a great influence on the fate of drug therapy as well as the health of patients. One of the major types of errors in prescriptions is the "errors of commission". In this study attempts were made to examine 519 prescriptions of the internal ward of Ayatollah Taleghani teaching hospital over a period of 3 months in terms of the nature and extent of t...