Background: Taking the positive effects of the hospital information systems on patients' treatment process and organization's function into account, it is necessary to evaluate information quality provided by such systems. Hence, the aim of this study was to assess and compare information quality of hospital information systems in medicalteaching hospitals of Isfahan based on the DeLone and McL...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the effects of ginger in nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. DESIGN This was a single blind clinical trial study. SETTING The study was conducted in a selected prenatal care clinic of Isfahan City hospitals. SUBJECTS The subjects included 67 pregnant women who complained of nausea and vomiting from Isfahan city hospitals participated in the s...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The user's satisfaction with information system in fact denotes the extent the user is satisfied with the system's achievement in fulfilling his/her information requirements. This study tries to explore the users' satisfaction with hospital information systems (HISs) based on DeLone and McLean's model focusing on the medical-teaching hospitals of Isfahan city. METHODOLO...

BACKGROUND Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is a parasitic disease in most parts of Iran, especially in the Isfahan province. The most common form of CL is a self-healing lesion but in rare situations, infection might develop to non-healing forms. Clinical symptoms and treatment process might be influenced by several agents such as host immune response and parasite strains. In this study, the isola...

1 Pediatrics Department, Child Growth and Development Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 81676-36954 Isfahan, Iran 2Environmental Engineering Department, Environment Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 3Preventive Cardiology Department, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA 4Arteriosklerose-Präventions-Institut, University of Munich...

The aim of the present study was to provide a preliminary description of habitat use by Guiana dolphins, Sotalia guianensis (Van Bénéden, 1864) in the Paranaguá Estuarine Complex (PEC), state of Paraná, Brazil. Approximately 124 km2 were surveyed by small boat from April 2006 to July 2008 in the following subsets of the PEC: Canal do Superagui (~28 km2); Pinheiros Bay (~34 km2); part of Laranje...

results fifty four of 84 (64.2%) slides obtained from patients had positive results microscopically, while 79/84 (94%) of slides had positive results by fta card-nested-pcr. pcr and microscopy showed a sensitivity of 96.4% and 64.2% and specificity of 100% and 100%, respectively. interestingly, leishmania major as causative agent of zoonotic cl was identified in 100% and 90.7% of cl cases from ...

This study was undertaken to investigate molecularly the occurrence of EHV-1 and EHV-4 infection among equine population in regions, Iran. Blood samples from 53 and 37 randomly selected horses settled in Isfahan and Shahrekord, Iran, respectively, were collected. Detection of EHV-1 and EHV-4 genes in the blood samples was done using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Out of 53 and 37 samples from...

INTRODUCTION As a natural phenomenon in the patient's medication therapy, medication clinical complications potentially or concretely interrupt medical care consequential productivity for the patients. Medication related clinical complications include drug errors, drug side effects, drug interactions and drug usage-related challenges. The present research intends to explore the role that the Ph...