lack of scientific and confirmed researches and expert knowledge about evaluation systems for clinical governance development in iran have made studies on different evaluation systems for clinical governance development a necessity. these studies must provide applied strategies to design criteria of implementing clinical governance for hospital's accreditation. this is a descriptive and compara...

OBJECTIVES Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) has been defined as a systemic, chronic, inflammatory arthritis, usually seronegative for rheumatoid factor (RF), associated with cutaneous psoriasis. The exact prevalence of PsA is unknown and its estimation has been difficult, partly due to the lack of a widely accepted classification criteria. Agreed and validated criteria will facilitate comparison betwe...

THE selection of analytical instruments is a very complex problem for a clinical chemical laboratory. The reason for this is that medical, methodological and practical organisa-tional aspects must all be considered simultaneously. It is necessary to develop criteria for these aspects which relate to characteristic and relevant features of the instruments concerned, which can be verified, and wh...