background: various decisions have been made on technology application at all levels of the health system in different countries around the world. health technology assessment is considered as one of the best scientific tools at the service of policy- makers. this study attempts to investigate the current challenges of iran’s health technology assessment and provide appropriate strategies to es...

Aim: to describe the module followed help undergraduate students in applying EBD-related skills develop an evidence-based report at Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (KAUFD). Method: The paper explains procedures undertaken teach last year dental program KAUFD. A brief description was provided, starting for preparation and including all steps required produce...

tissue-engineered biomaterials have existed approximately 40 years as simple biomimetic structures. replacement of human tissue with new tissue can be accomplished by generating replacements outside of the body or in situ in the body. in each case, the key elements are described as the tissue engineering triad of scaffolds, cells, and signals. scaffolds can be produced synthetically or derived ...

emergency physicians, like other specialists, are faced with different patients and various situations each day. they have to use ancillary diagnostic tools like laboratory tests and imaging studies to be able to manage them. in most cases, numerous tests are available. tests with the least error and the most accuracy are more desirable. the power of a test to separate patients from healthy one...

evidence-based medicine is now generally perceived to be the dominant operating system in conventional medicine. evidence-based medicine developed concurrently with the internet and the world wide web. this is no coincidence since evidence-based medicine suggests a personal responsibility for clinicians to keep abreast of research that would be difficult without the information access that the ...