In population based cancer studies, cure is said to occur when the mortality in the group of cancer patients returns to the same level as that expected in the general population. The cure fraction is of interest to patients and also a useful measure when analyzing trends in cancer patient survival. Recently models have been introduced, so called cure fraction models, that estimates the cure fra...

A variety of primary endpoints are used in clinical trials treating patients with severe infectious diseases, and existing guidelines do not provide a consistent recommendation. We propose to study simultaneously two primary endpoints, cure and death, in a comprehensive multistate cure-death model as starting point for a treatment comparison. This technique enables us to study the temporal dyna...

introduction: general medical education starts with basic sciences which usually continue about 2.5 to 3 years. in this period, the students study basic medical sciences and then start the clinical stage in which they deal with diagnoses, care, and cure of disease. the purpose of this study was to assess the integration of basic sciences period with the clinical period at shiraz university of m...

BACKGROUND Recruitment and retention of talent is central to the research performance of universities. Existing research shows that, while men are more likely than women to be promoted at the different stages of the academic career, no such difference is found when it comes to faculty retention rates. Current research on faculty retention, however, focuses on careers in science, technology, eng...

ISSUE ADDRESSED There is a need for a system of values and principles consistent with modern health promotion that enables practitioners to use these values and principles to understand health and in their needs assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation practice. METHOD Grounded theory, document analysis and the authors' own practice experience were used to systematically collect an...

results two major themes were extracted from the analysis of the transcripts: “comprehensive caring commitment” and “patients’ medication grudge”. conclusions according to the findings, the nurses are in a unique position to care for people with ms; therefore they should be ready to provide high-quality patient care in ms patients. patients must be encouraged to study about their condition and ...

A 3-dimensional finite element model is developed to simulate and analyze the temperature and degree of cure field of epoxy casting part during cure process. The present model based on general finite element software ABAQUS is verified by literature example and experimental data. The numerical results show good agreement with literature example and measured data, and are even more accurate than...