background clinical judgment development is necessary because it leads to appropriate nursing diagnoses, clinical decision-making and health promotion. objectives in this study we explored the process of iranian nurses’ development in clinical judgment. patients and methods this qualitative study was conducted in 2013 at hospitals of kurdistan university of medical sciences, located in the sana...

AIM There has been a call for increased integration of basic and clinical sciences during preclinical years of undergraduate medical education. Despite the recognition that clinical simulation is an effective pedagogical tool, little has been reported on its use to demonstrate the relevance of basic science principles to the practice of clinical medicine. We hypothesized that simulation with an...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Bibliometric indicators and analyses of clinical research articles can help to quantify the scientific production of hospitals and institutions and identify their main areas of research. The aim of this study was to draw up a bibliometric map of clinical research in dermatology by Spanish hospitals and institutions through an analysis of quantitative, qualitative, and t...

Levels of biomarkers of exposure to selected harmful and potentially harmful smoke constituents found in cigarette smoke, in addition to nicotine were measured in 160 smokers randomized for 5 days to continuing smoking conventional cigarettes (41 participants), switching to Tobacco Heating System 2.2 (THS 2.2) (80 participants), or abstaining from smoking (39 participants). The data reported he...

Since its initial publication in 1995, the International Tinnitus] ournal (IT J) has been dedicated to providing its readers with state-of-the-art information, not only of basic science but of its integration and translation into clinical medicine for achieving a cure for all clinical types of tinnitus. A report that integrates the clinical and basic science identifying neural substrates and bi...

INTRODUCTION Informed, voluntary, and valid consent from biomaterial donors is a precondition for biobank research. Valid consent protects donors' rights and helps maintain public trust in biobank research. Harmonization of consent procedures in biobank research is needed, because of the widely shared vision on national and international networking of biobanks including data and sample sharing....

a single group, and the major part of our knowledge has been derived from retrospective analysis or cross-seetional studies of presumably normal populations. These limited observations have led to conflicting interpretations concerning the nature of hypertension and the importance of various factors in its pathogenesis. Pickering has challenged the classical concept that essential hypertension ...

The purpose of this study was to assess the distribution of Mycobacterium avium serovars isolated from AIDS patients in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Ninety single site or multiple site isolates from 75 patients were examined. The most frequent serovars found were 8 (39.2%), 4 (21.4%) and 1 (10.7%). The frequency of mixed infections with serovar 8 or 4 was 37.8%. Among the 90 strains examined, ...