Breaking bad news is one of the most burdensome tasks physicians face in their everyday practice. It becomes even more challenging in the context of HIV+ patients because of stigma and discrimination. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the quality of giving HIV seroconversion news according to SPIKES protocol. Numbers of 154 consecutive HIV+ patients from Imam Khomeini Hospital testing...

OBJECTIVE To examine published evidence on intravenous admixture preparation errors (IAPEs) in healthcare settings. METHODS Searches were conducted in three electronic databases (January 2005 to April 2017). Publications reporting rates of IAPEs and error types were reviewed and categorised into the following groups: component errors, dose/calculation errors, aseptic technique errors and comp...

IN THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE TITLE COMPOUND [SYSTEMATIC NAME: 1-ethyl-6-fluoro-4-oxo-7-(piperazin-4-ium-1-yl)-1,4-dihydro-quinoline-3-carboxyl-ate sesquihydrate], C(16)H(18)FN(3)O(3)·1.42H(2)O, N-H⋯O and O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds assemble the mol-ecules in a two-dimensional layered corrugated sheet structure parallel to the b axis. The water mol-ecules are disordered [occupancies 0.741 (11) and 0...

Introduction: Radiation exposure during radiological examination is a health concern, of which radiology professionals should be cognizant. We sought to evaluate the radiation protection knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) amongst radiology staff of hospitals across 10 provinces of Iran. Materials and Methods: For evaluating the level of radiation protection KAP, 553 radiology staff were e...

introduction: hepatitis b is a disease caused by the hepatitis b virus (hbv), which is transmitted through percutaneous (i.e., puncture through the skin) or mucosal (i.e., direct contact with mucous membranes) exposure to infectious blood or body fluids. hbv can cause chronic infection, resulting in cirrhosis of the liver, liver cancer, liver failure, and death. persons with chronic infection a...

BACKGROUND Back pain is one of the most frequent complaints in the nursing profession. Thus, the 12-month prevalence of pain in the lumbar spine in nursing staff is as high as 76%. Only a few representative studies have assessed the prevalence rates of back pain and its risk factors among nursing staff in nursing homes in comparison to staff in home-based care facilities. The present study acco...

Health and care workers in England may be required to vaccinated against covid-19 flu before they can work directly with patients. The Department of Social Care has launched a six week consultation1 asking staff, healthcare providers, patients share their views on whether unless exempt, should vaccinated. The BMA warned, however, that making vaccination compulsory is complex raises many ethic...

Pulsed Dose Rate (PDR) treatment is a new brachytherapy modality that combines physical advantages of high-dose-rate (HDR) technology (isodose optimization and radiation safety) with radiobiological advantages of low-dose-rate (LDR) brachytherapy. Pulsed brachytherapy uses a stronger radiation source than that employed in LDR brachytherapy and provides a series of short 10 to 30 minutes long ex...

Background: One of the preventive measures COVID-19 is to take two dose vaccine. India now second wave spreads in community and daily increasing its number infection death, our study concentrates on COVID vaccination completed Health Care worker.Materials Methods: 195 staff members secondary medical care centre rural area are studied, out which taken 182 included data’s collected by Cross secti...