among the various methods of clinical teaching, rounds and grand rounds are considered as the gold standards. clinical round includes some standard components and it plays an effective role in student's learning process. the aim of this study was to evaluate the content of teaching rounds in 40 clinical wards in 4 medical teaching hospitals affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences in...

We examined out-of-pocket medical spending by persons with and without chronic conditions using data from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). Our results show that mean out-of-pocket spending increased with the number of chronic conditions. The level of this spending also varied by age and insurance coverage, among other characteristics. Out-of-pocket spending for prescription dru...

Introduction: Hidden curriculum plays a main role in professionallearning, formation of professional identity, socialization,moral development and learning values, attitudes, beliefs, andknowledge in learners, so it needs to be managed. Althoughthe majority of the theorists believe in the existence of a hiddencurriculum and its greater effect and sustainability com...

This paper describes a hidden Markov model (HMM) based visual synthesizer designed to assist persons with impairedhearing. This synthesizer builds on results in the area of audio-visual speech recognition. We describe how a correlation HMM can be used to integrate independent acoustic and visual HMMs for speech-to-visual synthesis. Our results show that an HMM correlating model can signi cantly...

Bottom Line The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends hepatitis B virus screening for human immunodeficiency virus–positive persons, users of illicit injection drugs, men who have sex with men, household contacts or sex partners of infected persons, and persons born in countries with a high prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection or who are born to parents who were born in r...

,4 DECADE ago the social security system was extended to include persons with self -employment earnings from agriculture. The first year they were covered (1955)) 2.1 million persons met the minimum income requirements and paid selfemployment taxes. 1 After reaching a peak of nearly 2.4 million tax returns for 1956, the number of farm persons filing self-employment social security tax returns d...

a continually absent person is “a person which is almost a long time laps from his absence and there is not any news behalf him” (article 1011 of civil code). the rules and effects of absence of continually absent person which chapter fifth of civil code specified to it, are mostly derived from jurisprudence, and in fact the base of civil code in this part is emamie jurisprudence. absence of ab...

Obesity causes serious medical complications and impairs quality of life. Moreover, in older persons, obesity can exacerbate the age-related decline in physical function and lead to frailty. However, appropriate treatment for obesity in older persons is controversial because of the reduction in relative health risks associated with increasing body mass index and the concern that weight loss cou...

The number of persons with hearing and vision loss is on the rise as lifespans increase. Vision plays an important role in communication, especially in the presence of background noise or for persons with hearing loss. However, persons with vision loss cannot make use of this extra modality to overcome their hearing deficits. We propose automatically utilizing some visual information in hearing...