background and objectives: the frequency of multi-drug resistant acinetobacter spp . infections is increasing in iran. considering availability of limited therapeutic options, clinical response and outcome of ventilator-associated pneumonia due to multi-drug resistant a.baumannii were evaluated in critically ill patients. materials and methods: in this prospective study, 29 patients with carbap...

behçet’s disease (bd) which is classified among vasculitides is a systemic disease with various manifestations. its clinical course is characterized by attacks and remissions. till now, two nationwide surveys of bd from iran and japan and 4 major case series from turkey, korea, morocco and england have been reported. clinical picture of bd is dominated by mucous membrane manifestations, includi...

randomization is an essential component of sound clinical trials which prevents selection biases and helps in blinding the allocations. randomization is a process by which subsequent subjects enrolled into trial groups only by chance which is essentially eliminates selection biases. a serious consequence of randomization is severe imbalance among treatment groups with respect to some prognostic...

the anatomic anomalies detection is important for an attentive clinician. asuccessful treatment of an endodontically involved tooth should make itfunctional and aesthetically acceptable for the patient. the following articlepresented a case of gemination and the endodontic, prosthetic and periodontaltreatments which were done to keep a complicated tooth in aesthetic zone

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background: although, nontuberculous mycobacteria can cause disease in different organisms, they usually are not reported in most countries because scientists in general consider them as non-pathogens. but, increasing nontuberculous mycobacteria diseases occurrence has changed this belief. nevertheless, there is no meta-analysis review about prevalence of nontuberculous mycobacteria in iran. me...

conclusions our findings did not support the use of zataria multiflora boiss in premenstrual syndrome. results thirty-eight students in intervention and 37 students in placebo group completed the study. the groups had no significant difference regarding the severity of pms. both groups showed a significant improvement in pms severity score after the intervention. the repeated-measure analysis o...

background:students are the main customers of the universities. thus, their perceptions and expectations of the educational quality is of great importance in planning for quality improvement. this study is aimed on evaluating the quality of clinical education in hospitals affiliated with kerman university of medical sciences. methods: this is a descriptive-analytical study. three hundred and th...

background: a main factor to change the education from static to dynamic situations is continuous evaluation of academic systems. this study is performed to analyze the students’ viewpoints in terms of the quality of clinical education in birjand university of medical sciences. methods: this is a descriptive and analytical study. the statistical population consists of 135 individuals including ...

introduction: pre-operative investigations for emergency surgical patients differ between centers. following established guidelines can reduce unnecessary investigation, cost of treatment and hospital stay. the present audit was carried out to evaluate the condition of doing pre-operative investigations for three common surgical emergencies compared to national institute for health and care exc...