Blood Pressure Monitoring in Clinical Trials in the Absence of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Recording: Where Is the Stand? To the Editor: The American Heart Association position statement on blood pressure (BP) measurements1 will be useful for clinicians and academicians alike in arriving at a consensus. The BP recordings reported in clinical trials have an important bearing on the future clinical...

background: the most common types of medical error are medication errors (mes) which defined as any preventable event that may be caused by an inappropriate medication usage and lead to an adverse drug reaction (adr) event in patients. in recent years, different approaches have been proposed to reduce mes, one of which is reporting adrs. the present study was designed to assess the knowledge, a...

medication errors (mes) are among the most prevalent health errors threatening patients’ safety and are regarded as an index for determining patients’ well-being in hospitals. the purpose of this study was to explore the me reporting rate and causes of underreporting among the nursing students in the city of kerman. in this cross-sectional study, 90 nursing students in the seventh and eighth se...

BACKGROUND Community health worker (CHW) programs are believed to be poorly coordinated, poorly integrated into national health systems, and lacking long-term support. Duplication of services, fragmentation, and resource limitations may have impeded the potential impact of CHWs for achieving HIV goals. This study assesses mediators of a more harmonized approach to implementing large-scale CHW p...

Carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) is a generic term that refers to the transferrin glycoforms whose concentration in blood is temporarily increased by sustained alcohol consumption. Due to high clinical specificity, CDT was proposed as a biomarker of heavy alcohol use and has been available for about 20 years. A number of methods have been developed for CDT measurement based on different...

While the purpose of financial accounting is the provision of useful information to those external, related groups who make decisions about a firm, the number of profits calculated in financial accounting is also utilized as the basis for the assessment of taxable income. In Japan, the accounting system under the Commercial Law (ASCL) is a typical financial accounting system. ASCL is closely co...