Case Report in Oral Health: It Should be Promoted

How should Rural Women's Enterprises Be Developed and Promoted?

This study was a qualitative research which was done by a case study approach. The samples were chosen from rural development experts of Hamedan Province during a snowball sampling process. The data were collected by the semistructured interviews. The data collection was done by faceto- face interviews, after the interview questions guide was determined. The theoretical saturation was attained ...

Torsades de pointes: Should ECG be taken from all patients before surgery? A case report

Torsades de pointes is a rare but potentially lethal arrhythmia which mainly occurs in the setting of a prolonged QT interval. ECG is a reliable tool to detect such abnormalities, routinely taken from all patients over 40 who undergo surgery. We describe the case of a 35-year-old woman with torsades de points arrhythmia after hysterectomy surgery. Most likely, our patients had long QT syndro...

Consumer satisfaction with occupational health services: should it be measured?

OBJECTIVES To find answers in the literature to the questions if, why, and how consumer satisfaction with occupational health services (OHSs) should be measured. METHODS Publications about the concept of consumer satisfaction with health care and surveys of consumer satisfaction with occupational health care were reviewed. RESULTS For care providers, surveys of consumer satisfaction can be ...

How high should it be?

Should all clinical trials of oral health be registered?

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and their metaanalyses are considered the gold standard to making informed decisions about which treatment is best. In fact, meta-analyses combine the findings of several RCTs and may overcome the limitations of individual trials. However, because of the vast amount of unpublished results of RCTs, the conclusions of a systematic review can be misleading1. Was...