PURPOSE This study aimed to determine the mortality rate in patients with severe trauma and the risk factors for trauma mortality based on 3 years' data in a regional trauma center in Korea. METHODS We reviewed the medical records of severe trauma patients admitted to Ajou University Hospital with an Injury Severity Score (ISS) > 15 between January 2010 and December 2012. Pearson chi-square t...

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a disease characterized by hyperinflammation with multiple organ involvement that develops after COVID-19 infection. In this study, we aimed to assess the clinical characteristics, cardiologic findings, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results of MIS-C cases. Thirty-one patients diagnosed followed up at Eskişehir Osmangazi Uni...

BACKGROUND Coagulopathy often develops in patients with serious trauma and is correlated with the clinical outcome. The contribution of platelet activity and endothelial dysfunction to trauma-induced coagulopathy remain to be defined. The purpose of this study was to investigate the time courses of soluble P-selectin (sPsel, an index of platelet activation) and von Willebrand factor (VWF, an in...

Background and Objectives: Spiritual intelligence is a kind of ultimate intelligence that shows the conceptual and valuable issues and to solve the problems associated with it. the foundation of individual beliefs can have important role in various fields especially in the promotion and provision of psychic health . Thus, the aim of this study was to survey the rate of spiritual intelligence am...

In this paper we describe a web-based information system, which serves for a first contact between a university and a prospecting student (applicant) in the admission process. We describe advantages of an involvement of the applicant into the virtual space of the university. Our e-Application system covers the whole admission process. The objective is to make the communication between the unive...

staff burnout in tabriz hospitals: the role of behavior types and coping strategies   badri gargari r [1] *, lotfinia h [2] , mohamadnajad r [3]    received : 16 march , 2011 accepted: 10june , 2011   abstract  background & aims: feeling burnout leads to reduced productivity in organizations and has physical and mental signs such as overreacting to minor hassles, reporting being overwhelmed, an...

BACKGROUND Cardiac stress tests for diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD) are incompletely sensitive and specific. OBJECTIVE We examined the frequency of significant CAD in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain who have had a recent negative or inconclusive (<85% of predicted maximum heart rate) cardiac stress test. METHODS This was a retrospective chart ...

OBJECTIVE We sought to determine whether information on hospital charges (prices) would affect test-ordering and quality of patient care in a pediatric emergency department (ED). DESIGN Prospective, nonblind, controlled trial of price information. SETTING Urban, university-affiliated pediatric ED. METHODS We prospectively assessed patients 2 months to 10 years of age with a presenting tem...