Background: Long-term financial support is essential for the survival of a charitable organization. Health charities need to identify the effective factors influencing donor retention. Methods: In the present study, the items of a questionnaire were derived from both literature review and semi-structured interviews related to donor retention. Using a purposive sampling, 300 academic and exec...

Background & Aims: Renal transplantation is the best therapeutic option for End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). The aim of this study was to determine the graft survival rate of renal transplantation in patients who have been transplanted from live donor in Shiraz Transplant Research Center, Shiraz, Iran. Methods: In a survival analysis study, organ survival rate after kidney transplantation from...

BACKGROUND Different methods for dressing of donor site of skin graft in burn patients have similarly pain, limitation of mobility of donor site and local complications such as infection and scar. Amniotic membrane has used for improvement of healing in some wounds. Accordingly in this study amnion was used as biologic dressing for donor site of skin graft to evaluate it’s efficacy in improveme...

To discuss the psychological impact of disclosure decisions on donor gamete participants including gamete donors, intended parents, and the children conceived through these third party reproductive techniques. In the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase worldwide in the number of children born as a result of gamete donation. The growing demand for these programs has resulted in a tre...

Photostable donor–acceptor–donor fluorophores, which have a central quinoxaline acceptor nucleus, been used in LSCs, obtaining outstanding results for modern building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV).

background: care of brain dead donors is complex, critical, and sensitive and has a direct and positive impact on the end result of organ and tissue transplantation process. this study describes the nurses’ experiences of care of brain dead donors in intensive care units (icu). materials and methods: this research was performed by phenomenological method that is a qualitative approach. purposiv...