BACKGROUND No published curricula in the area of medical business ethics exist. This is surprising given that physicians wrestle daily with business decisions and that professional associations, the Institute of Medicine, Health and Human Services, Congress, and industry have issued related guidelines over the past 5 years. To fill this gap, the authors aimed (1) to identify the full range of m...

abstract the overall purpose in this study was to investigate extensional- educational factors that influencing on transgenic plants usage. the research design of the study was a survey utilizing descriptive-correlation technique. the target population consisted of 85 biotechnology experts at research institutes of tehran province which were studied by a census study (n=85). finally 63 experts ...

The present project involved a collective effort agreed by the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and the General Thoracic Surgery Club to assemble a joint panel of experts to review the available data and address ambiguous aspects of chest tube definitions and nomenclature. The task force was composed of 11 in...

The assessment procedure of new synthetic illicit drugs that are not documented in the UN treaty on psychotropic drugs was evaluated using a modified Electre model. Drugs were evaluated by an expert panel via the open Delphi approach, where the written score was discussed on 16 items, covering medical, health, legal, and criminalistic issues of the drugs. After this face-to-face discussion the ...

BACKGROUND Although the validity of content of program is mostly conducted with qualitative methods, this study used both qualitative and quantitative methods for the validation of content of post marriage training program provided for newly married couples. Content validity is a preliminary step of obtaining authorization required to install the program in country's health care system. METHO...

OBJECTIVE Lack of consensus on taxonomy, terminology, and definitions has led to confusion about which measurement properties are relevant and which concepts they represent. The aim was to clarify and standardize terminology and definitions of measurement properties by reaching consensus among a group of experts and to develop a taxonomy of measurement properties relevant for evaluating health ...

This paper describes how cloud computing has been used to reduce the time taken to generate chemical activity models from years to weeks. Chemists use Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) models to predict the activity of molecules. Existing Discovery Bus software builds these models automatically from datasets containing known molecular activities, using a “panel of experts” alg...

Feature article: a panel of Lyme experts present bold new data demonstrating the therapeutic effects of Pentacyclic Alkaloid Chemotype U n c a r i a tomentosa (TOA-free Cat’s Claw) to be effective in the treatment of chronic Lyme disease. See page 3 Q & A section with Lyme experts about testing methods, natural therapies, neurotoxins associated with Lyme, and dealing with treatment-related toxi...

the main purpose of the present study was to investigate effective factors of the market development of aquatics and products processed from them. the present research was applied research. also, it was quantity research and in terms of the method of collecting data was a survey research. the statistical population of this study consisted of experts of agricultural jihad organization, experts o...