Zahra Fathifar, Hossein Saeedi Hasankandi, Fatemeh Sadeghi-Ghyassi. Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Central Library, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; PhD Student, Health Information Management, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Research Center for Evidence Based Medicine,...

ISS which may be interpreted as transparency in information delivery is of high importance in personal life as well as in ruling system. It may be stated that these two are two sides of the same coin. If there is a real intention to govern people in a real democracy, then ISS is well-defined and developed in the country, and if ISS is well-defined, then it can be concluded that real resolutenes...

Fatemeh Sadeghi-Ghyassi, Zahra Fathifar, Hossein Saeedi Hasankandi. PhD Student, Health Information Management, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Research Center for Evidence Based Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Central Library,...

background: in addition of the socio-economics costs, trauma is the 4th cause of death at all age groups, in 2000, trauma was caused more than 6 million deaths in the world. despite promising trend in improving many aspects of health care and treatment in the last decade in our country, little attention has been paid to the subject of registering trauma on an international standard. effective p...

This essay is a personal reflection on how early decisions shaped the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and how the program has evolved over the past decade. It draws heavily on observations from the planning studies in 1997 and 1998, and my experience as principal investigator of the Cornell University's part of the Core Integration team until 2005. The thoughts expressed here are purely...