Objective: Diabetes is one of the most prevalent disorders in human. During recent years the rate of diabetes had been increased in the world and it will be increased by 122% from 1995 to 2025. The aim of this study was to determine the self-care of diabetic patients referred to Rahmatabad health care center in Yazd city, Iran. Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive study done on 152 di...

background: some congenital defects can be prevented in the pregestational stage. however, many health professionals are not prepared to provide counselling to couples regarding the same. objective: this study aimed to assess the performance of doctors and nurses from a primary health-care unit in florianopolis, brazil, in preventing birth defects in the preconception period based on the recomm...

a From the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh PA b Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh PA c Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh PA d Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pitts...

Data Resource Profile: the Dutch National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) Registry of Admissions to Adult Intensive Care Units Nick van de Klundert, Rebecca Holman,* Dave A. Dongelmans and Nicolette F. de Keizer National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of ...

a Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; b Department of Neurobiology Care Sciences and Society, Division of Nursing, Research Group Integrative Care, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; c I C – The Integrative Care Science Center, Järna, Sweden; d Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, ...

Late referral of patients with chronic kidney disease is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, but the contribution of center-to-center and geographic variability of pre-ESRD nephrology care to mortality of patients with ESRD is unknown. We evaluated the pre-ESRD care of > 30,000 incident hemodialysis patients, 5088 (17.8%) of whom died during follow-up (median 365 d). Approximatel...

a) EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, the Netherlands b) Department of General Practice & Elderly Care Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, the Netherlands c) Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Hippocratespad 21, 2300...

extractthis study have been done in the american university of beirut medical center for recognizing the skills of nurses in counseling for facilitating mental and physical rehabilitation of war disabled. this center was admitted veterans from ten years ago. this study showed important role of nurses in rehabilitation persons who were disabled from war conflict, terrible events related to war, ...