background given the rapid pace of changes in community health needs and the mission of healthcare organizations to provide and promote the community’s health, the growing need to increase health system responsiveness to people as a key element of observance and fulfillment of justice is felt more than ever. results confirmatory factor analysis, based on the results of the key informant survey ...

OBJECTIVE To examine challenges in forming accurate conclusions from claims data when comparing different patient groups, and to stress the need to adjust for confounding variables through application of statistical methods. METHODS Patients who were 60 or older and began amlodipine or felodipine in 1997 or 1998 were identified from a proprietary managed care claims database. Patients had 6 m...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected not only the emergency medical system, but also patients' regular ambulatory care, as such decrease in number of patients visiting outpatient clinics decreased 2020 than 2019, or ban lifting subsequent visits by telephone for since March lieu care chronic diseases. In this context, we investigate impact on at Japanese with neurological diseases during 2020. We...

background: gastrointestinal and liver diseases (gild) constitute a noteworthy portion of causes of death and disability in iran. however, data on their prevalence and burden is sparse in iran. the global burden of disease (gbd) study in 2010 has provided invaluable comprehensive data on the burden of gild in iran methods: estimations of death, years of life lost due to premature death (yll), y...

156. Cost Analysis of Ertapenem Therapy for Urinary Tract Infections and Assesment of Its Suitability for Outpatient Paranteral Antibiotic Therapy in Turkey Bahar Ormen; Nesrin Turker; Nurbanu Sezak; Zerrin Kara; Figen Kaptan; Tuna Demirdal; Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Izmir Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey; Infectious Diseases and...

A number of studies have documented the safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness of outpatient intravenous (i.v.) antibiotic therapy for patients with infectious diseases. Nevertheless, Medicare policy prohibiting coverage of outpatient, self-administered drugs has severely limited access of Medicare patients to ambulatory i.v. therapy, thus forcing them to rely on more costly, impatient hospit...

Neurological facilities are traditionally centered in academic hospitals and often far away from the patients' living area. Both, the transfer of patients to remote hospitals and inpatient treatment are associated with high energy consumption. Numbers of patients with neurological diseases are expected to increase along with the demographical changes and the environmental impact of neurological...

PURPOSE To evaluate medical students' satisfaction with clinical education during medical internship and the effects of variables in the organizational domain on satisfaction. METHOD A cross-sectional descriptive analytic study in 2000 identified students' satisfaction with clinical education in medical students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Students' satisfaction was assessed by ...

Objective: To characterize the use of alcohol and tobacco and correlate both to the diseases of outpatients in a general practice outpatient clinic. Method: The ASSIST (Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test) questionnaire was answered by 300 randomly chosen subjects assigned to different groups according to the diseases being treated at the Outpatient General and Teaching ...