BACKGROUND The present study was conducted to establish the patterns and risk factors of surgical site infections in our institution between 2006 and 2011. METHODS This was a retrospective cross-sectional study. The surgical site infection (SSI) was identified based on the presence of ICD-10-CM diagnostic code in hospital discharge records. By using a standardized data collection form predict...

Background: Nursing care activities in the context of infectious epidemics, such as COVID-19, can lead to high levels stress nurses. Objectives: This study aimed investigate relationship between occupational and adequacy hospital support measures among nurses with experience caring for patients non-infectious diseases during COVID-19 outbreak. Methods: descriptive-analytical cross-sectional was...

Background: This descriptive, analytic study aimed to compare the costs of 10 types of Global Budget Payment System (GBPS) surgery in Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad City, Iran, in 2016 with the prices in the GBPS.  Methods: From hospital-discharge data and patients’ bills, we identified 10 types of GBPS surgeries performed in Imam Reza hospital. The patients were grouped according to the surgical...

Aims of this study were to investigate on antibiotic resistance and molecular epidemiology of K.pneumoniae producing ESBLs isolates of respiratory tract infections in some major hospitals in Iran. K.pneumonaie were obtained of patients with RTI. K. pneumoniae producing ESBLs detected by screening, confirming and PCR methods. During the 12-month period, a total of one hundred and thirteen of K.p...

Emerson R. Silva,* a ,b Wendel A. Alves, Valeria Castelletto, Mehedi Reza, Janne Ruokolainen, Rohanah Hussain and a Ian W. Hamley * b Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André 09210580, Brazil Department of Chemistry, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Berkshire RG6 6AD, UK Dept of Applied Physics, Aalto University School of Science, P. O. Box 15100, FI00...

Background: Poisoning is a medical emergency, and considered as common cause of morbidity mortality worldwide. In this study, the extended Cox model was used to determine factors affecting length hospitalization in those with drug poisoning. Methods: The sample size included 2408 patients opioids poisoning referring Emergency Department Imam Reza Hospital Mashhad, Iran from March 21, 2018 20, 2...

We give explicit formulas for the number of distinct elliptic curves over a finite field, up to isomorphism, in the families of Legendre, Jacobi, Hessian and Edwards curves.

A descent family of Dai–Liao conjugate gradient methods Saman Babaie-Kafaki & Reza Ghanbari a Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences, Semnan University, P.O. Box 35195-363, Semnan, Iran b School of Mathematics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), P.O. Box 19395-5746, Tehran, Iran c Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Ferdowsi Universi...