Legal medicine: assessing mental capacity and writing medical reports for deputy applications.

The Effects of On-the-job and Workshop Training Methods on Performance of Midwives in Report Writing

Background & aim: One of the most important professional duties of midwives is writing the reports, which considered as legal documents. Incomplete reports can resulted in misunderstanding and even lead to filing charges against midwives by the legal authorities. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of on-the-job training (OJT) and workshop training m...

Physiology and clinical use of melatonin Author

Author Richard Wurtman, MD Cecil H Green Distinguished Professor Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Disclosures: Consultant/Advisory Boards: Danone Medical Foods (Alzheimer's disease); Centre Int'l Research Servier (pain, personalized medicine). Patent Holder: Back Bay Scientific (medical uses of nutrients (inventor, patents held by MIT)). Section E...

An Estimation of Drug-Related Deaths in Iran, Using the Capture-Recapture Method (2014-2016)

Homeward bound or bound for a home? Assessing the capacity of dementia patients to make decisions about hospital discharge: comparing practice with legal standards.

BACKGROUND This article stems from a larger project which considers ways of improving assessments of capacity and judgements about best interests in connection with people with dementia admitted to acute hospitals with respect to decisions about place of residence. AIMS Our aim is to comment on how assessments of residence capacity are actually performed on general hospital wards compared wit...

The effect of reading, writing and math training on the mental state of schizophrenics

Aims: The aim of this study was survey the effect of reading, writing and math training on the mental state of schizophrenics Material and Methods: This clinical trial was performed on 60 patients with schizophrenia at Sina Hospital by using simple sampling method. Patients were randomly divided into two groups of patients undergoing routine treatment (control group) and patients under routine...