Yearly Progress of Died Patients Using Medical Recorded Information

Methodological Challenges & Recommendations for Measuring Adequate Yearly Progress

The recent federal push under the No Child Left Behind Act to finalize means for gauging school improvement has stoked public anxiety, but especially for public school officials who are charged with crafting and implementing de-fensible accountability systems. Other than the omnipresent political issues attending any proposal for shaping educational change, the methodological challenges of an a...

Cardiac ventricular weights recorded at the autopsy of healthy subjects who died of external causes.

OBJECTIVE To establish cardiac ventricular weights recorded during the autopsy of healthy individuals who died of external causes, aiming at determining normality patterns in our population. METHODS A total of 94 hearts were evaluated at the Forensics Department of the city of Vitória, Espírito Santo. After the heart removal and resection of the atria and epicardial fat, the right ventricle (...

Medical progress

hronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant interactive disease in patients with diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease with major morbidity and mortality consequences and high costs to the healthcare system. CKD is characterized by a gradual loss of renal function. In most parts of the world, once end-stage renal disease (ESRD) occurs, patients who do not have access to maintenanc...

The renewal of medical education in Iran: progress and challenge

Patients' memory for medical information.

When important decisions are to be made, the patient must receive detailed information on the illness, treatment options and prognosis. The shortening of hospital stays and the trend towards outpatient care enhance the need of patients and their families for specific information.1 Practitioners are responding to these demands, yet the amount of information correctly recalled by patients is stri...