BACKGROUND The availability and effectiveness of decision aids (DAs) on early abortion methods remain unknown, despite their potential for supporting women's decision making. OBJECTIVE To describe the availability, impact and quality of DAs on surgical and medical early abortion methods for women seeking induced abortion. SEARCH STRATEGY For the systematic review, we searched MEDLINE, Cochr...

OBJECTIVE To contribute to the development of a set of quality criteria for patient education and health professionals training that could be applied in European countries. METHODS Literature review quality criteria, pre-selection based on a comparison of the criteria, peer group and expert based selection of the criteria. RESULTS 14 quality criteria were selected: goals, rationale, target ...

there are many evident that people are more interested in walking in attractive urban spaces and inappropriate physical and psychological condition can reduce their presence in a remarkable amount. the current research investigates the influence of physical design and psychological elements and their criteria on selective physical activity and specifically walking in urban public spaces. howeve...

Acquisition and compilation of water-quality data for an 11-yr time period (1996-2006) from 589 stream and river stations were conducted to support nutrient criteria development for the multistate Red River Basin shared by Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Ten water-quality parameters were collected from six data sources (USGS, Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, L...

Nonylphenol (NP) is an endocrine disruptor and causes feminization and carcinogenesis in various organisms. Consequently, the environmental distribution and ecological risks of NP have received wide concern. China accounts for approximately 10% of the total NP usage in the world, but the water quality criteria of NP have not been established in China and the ecological risks of this pollutant c...

introduction cities and neighborhoods in iran couldn’t adjust themselves to quick changes of the recent decades and have lost their quality in many aspects. due to poor planning and governance at the regional and urban design on physical function, rapid growth of large-scale migrations and inefficient policies and procedures in dealing with urban neighborhoods neglected urban neighborhoods as w...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 crisis in family members of patients in intensive care unit following hospitalization make new needs for them. if these needs unmet, they will experience many stress and anxiety and their ability in coping would be decreased. this was a review article study. scientific database were searched and surveyed for collecting pap...