Ambulance Use by International Travelers in Japan: A Retrospective Descriptive Study

a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

Lichen planus: A retrospective descriptive study of 363 cases

Background: Lichen planus has various clinical and epidemiologic features in different countries. Objectives: To determine clinical and epidemiologic patterns of lichen planus in dermatology department of Hamadan Sina Hospital during a ten-year period. Patients and Methods: This retrospective descriptive study was performed on 363 patients (Including 190 females and 173 males) suffered fr...

Vaccinations of International Travelers

Acute Pyelonephritis in Pregnancy: A Retrospective Descriptive Hospital Based-Study

Introduction. Pyelonephritis is a common complication of pregnancy. It is also exacerbated by immunocompromised states and also the sickle cell gene. We reviewed this condition in Jamaican women. Method. We did a six year hospital database docket review. We found 102 confirmed cases. Results. Pyelonephritis was found in 0.7% of deliveries. The mean maternal age was 24 ± 5.83 years with 51% prim...

Failure of Early Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis in Japan—A Retrospective Descriptive Analysis

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a severe disease with high morbidity and mortality, and these can be exacerbated by delay in diagnosis. We investigated IE diagnosis in Japan with the emphasis on the delay in diagnosis and its cause and implications. We conducted a retrospective study on 82 definite IE patients at Kobe University Hospital from April 1, 2008, through March 31, 2013. We reviewed ch...

Mortality in international professional football (soccer): a descriptive study.

The objective of this study was to describe the characteristics of mortalities from 2007 to 2013 in active (during career) and recently retired (post career) professional footballers. An observational prospective study was conducted. From 2007, the World Footballers' Union (FIFPro) and its related national footballers' unions (more than 70 countries distributed across all continents) collected ...