OBJECTIVE To describe the therapeutic practice of allopathic physicians and to evaluate the outpatient care provided to patients in healthcare facilities. METHODS The study was conducted in Ribeirão Preto, southeastern Brazil. World Health Organization drug use indicators were used as a methodological basis. Our sample comprised 10 healthcare facilities, with 6,692 prescriptions written by cl...

BACKGROUND We aimed to identify the indicators of healthcare fraud and abuse in general physicians' drug prescription claims, and to identify a subset of general physicians that were more likely to have committed fraud and abuse. METHODS We applied data mining approach to a major health insurance organization dataset of private sector general physicians' prescription claims. It involved 5 ste...

Aim: This study was aimed at finding the occurrence rate of prescription errors in the outpatients' prescriptions written by faculty and non-faculty physicians practicing in Shiraz, Iran. Method: In this cross-sectional study 2000 outpatient prescriptions were randomly collected from pharmacies affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS) and social security insurance in Shiraz,...

The study presents a comparative analysis of the organoleptic and physico-chemical parameters five samples whole-grain bread produced using various ferments based on hop cones. quality assessment was carried out according to following indicators: shape, surface, color, baking, porosity, promes, taste smell, then all were compared with GOST readings each other. According results indicators, pres...

a new medium, termed ecol was developed for the detection and enumeration of e. coli. the selective properties of ecol medium for the detection of e.coli from mixed culture in wastewater was tested and compared with conventional coliform media at 37°c and 44°c. results clearly showed that ecol medium was enable to direct confirmation of e.coli to be carried out by the indole reaction. the resul...

background: one of the main and basic pillars of health system promotion is the equitable distribution of health facilities in order to ensure fair access of people in the community to the health services. the goal of this study was to classify the health structural indicators in golestan province using scalogram analysis model. method: a descriptive study was conducted in 2010. data related to...

CONTEXT Knee extension exercise is an important part of knee rehabilitation. Clinicians prescribe non-weight bearing exercise initially and progress patients to weight bearing exercise once they can perform a straight leg raise (SLR). OBJECTIVE Compare VM activation during a SLR and weight bearing exercises. DESIGN One-way repeated measures design. SETTING University Laboratory. SUBJECT...