IRBESARTAN IN THE CLINICAL PRACTICE

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Frequency of Errors in Clinical Laboratory Practice

  Background and Objective: Laboratory errors are one of the major factors that affect the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and monitoring in patients.The objective of study is to evaluate the frequency and type of errors in different phases of testing at the Pathology Department of the Shalamar Hospital, Lahore and to evaluate the causes of errors. Methods: This observational study was carrie...

Effect of the angiotensin receptor blocker irbesartan on metabolic parameters in clinical practice: the DO-IT prospective observational study

AIMS A number of intervention studies have shown that therapy with angiotensin receptor blockers, such as irbesartan, can improve metabolic parameters and reduce the incidence of diabetes mellitus. It is unknown whether this observation also holds true in routine clinical settings. METHODS We evaluated the effect of irbesartan (150 mg or 300 mg/d) together with or without hydrochlorothiazide ...

The Influential Factors in Profiting the Research Evidences and Results in Clinical Practice by Rehabilitation Practitioners

Objective: This study intends to determine the factors attributed to the use of research evidences results in practice, by rehabilitation’s practitioners in educational hospitals of Tehran. Materials & Methods: In this study, the research community included all the 485 rehabilitation practitioners working in educational hospitals of Tehran. The samples were consisted of 165 persons which hav...

The Responsibility of the Institutional Review Board in Good Clinical Practice: First, Do No Harm

Dear Editor,I read with interest the article on outpatient management of burn wounds published in a recent issue of the IJMS.1 There are many questions that arise which are worth mentioning. Under the methodology section, no description was provided on how patients were randomized into the two treatment arms and, therefore, it is not possible to assess how confounding variables were controlled....