Albumin is an expensive drug which imposes relatively high cost on the health care system. Doing ABC analysis in Shahid Motahari Hospital, it was revealed that albumin is categorized in class A. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the pattern of albumin use and the physicians' adherence to evidenced-based albumin guidelines in this large general non-teaching hospital in Shiraz, Iran....

Esmaeil Mortaz 1, , Mohammad Reza Masjedi , Soheila Matroodi , Atefeh Abedini , Arda Kiani , Dina Soroush , and Ian M. Adcock * 1 Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2 Chronic Respiratory Disease Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (NRITLD), Masih Dane...

Sleep disturbances have been shown to be associated with diabetes control, but the relation between planned wakings or napping with glycemic indices has not been evaluated yet. This study evaluated the relation between sleep quality, duration, and pattern, including daytime napping of people with diabetes and their glycemic control. A cross-sectional correlation research design was used for thi...

1. Stem Cell Biology Research Center, Yazd Reproductive Sciences Institute, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. 2. Research and Clinical Center for Infertility, Yazd Reproductive Sciences Institute, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. 3. Department of Reproductive Biology, School of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, I...

Published 1. End Conditions for Interpolatory Septic Spline Ghazala Akram and Shahid S. Siddiqi, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Vol. 82, No. 12, 2005 pp15251540. 2. Solutions of Fifth Order Boundary-Value Problems Using NonPolynomial Spline Technique Shahid S. Siddiqi and Ghazala Akram, Applied Mathematics and Computation Vol. 175, No. 2, 2006 pp. 1574-1581. 3. Solutions of Sixt...

a Preventive Dentistry Research Center, Research Institute of Dental Sciences, Dental School, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; b Dental Research Center, Research Institute of Dental Sciences, Dental School, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; c Dentofacial Deformities Research Center, Research Institute of Dental Sciences, Dental School, Sh...

BACKGROUND Considerable development of MRI technology in diagnostic imaging, high cost of MRI technology and controversial issues concerning official charges (tariffs) have been the main motivations to define and implement this study. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to calculate the unit-cost of MRI services using activity-based costing (ABC) as a modern cost accounting system and to fairl...

Esmaeil Mortaz , Mohammad Reza Masjedi 2 and Peter Barnes 3 1 Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Universiteitsweg 99, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2Chronic Respiratory Disease Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (NRITLD), Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of M...