BACKGROUND Many register studies make use of information about permanent nursing home residents. Statistics Denmark (StatD) identifies nursing home residents by two different indirect methods, one based on reports from the municipalities regarding home care in taken place in a nursing home, and the other based on an algorithm created by StatD. The aim of the present study was to validate StatD'...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Effective application of electrosurgical techniques requires knowledge of energy sources and electric circuits to produce desired tissue effects. A lack of electrosurgery knowledge may negatively affect patient outcomes and safety. Our objective was to survey obstetrics-gynecology trainees and faculty to assess their basic knowledge of electrosurgery concepts as a need...

The multidimensional educational and clinical care processes in medical schools and hospitals involve many individuals, one of which is the physician resident. Medical residents have two different roles, as students of universities’ specialty programs and as healthcare professional workers employed by medical institutions and the healthcare system. The educational function of physicians is as o...

according to the report published by the united nations scientific committee on the effects of atomic radiation (unscear) in 2000, ramsar city in northern iran, has some inhabited areas with the highest known natural background radiation levels in the world (1). the annual radiation absorbed dose in high background radiation areas (hbras) of ramsar is extraordinary high, reaching 260 msv that i...

Objective To identify the prevalence of malnutrition in elderly hip fracture and to investigate the relationship between hip fracture patients and malnutrition on functional recovery and mortality. Methods All hip fracture patients age >65 years admitted to a rehabilitation unit were recruited from July 2015 to June 2016. Nutritional status was assessed by Mini-Nutritional Assessment Short-Fo...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The use of an electronic audience response system (ARS) that promotes active participation during lectures has been shown to improve retention rates of factual information in nonmedical settings. This study (1) tested the hypothesis that the use of an ARS during didactic lectures can improve learning outcomes by family medicine residents and (2) identified factors infl...

BACKGROUND Dementia diagnosis and management is increasing in importance in the training of future family physicians. This study evaluated the impact of a dementia education program for family medicine residents (FMR) on residents' knowledge, attitudes, and confidence with respect to dementia assessment and management. A three-part questionnaire was developed and validated for these purposes. ...

HLA-DRB1 allele frequencies of 28 myasthenia gravis (MG) patients, residents of southern Iranian provinces, were studied using PCR-SSP method. The control group consisted of 100 healthy individuals of the same ethnic group. The allele HLA-DRB1 * 16 (RR= 2.04, p= 0.028) was found to be significantly increased in MG patients compared to the control group, whereas HLADRB1 * 15(RR= 0.17 p= 0.0...

1 Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, CIICAp, Av. Universidad 1001, 62209 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 2 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias Fisicas, Av. Universidad s/n, 62210 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 3 Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Reforma 113, 62490 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 4 Corrosión y Protección (CyP), Buffon 46, 11590 Mexico City, DF, Me...