background & aims of the study: the sharp injuries (sis) are a percutaneous piercing wound caused by a sharp instrument. needle sticks and sharp injuries (nssis) can increase the incidence of cases of hepatitis b, c and hiv. the purpose of this study was to investigation of the relative frequency of nssis in healthcare workers (hcws) in ahvaz, iran (razi hospital) over 3-year period (2011–2013)...

behavior refers to the actions made by organisms in conjunction with their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment. lots of types of behavior exist such as conscious or unconscious, voluntary or involuntary and overt or covert. childhood has a remarkable role on formation of human behavior in his later life which already has been pro...

introduction: timeliness has been considered as a key domain in quality of emergency department (ed) care and delay in care providing is influential determinants of patient’s outcomes. the present study, aimed to evaluate the determinants of prolonged ed length of stay (los). methods: in this cross-sectional study, using adopted version of the latest form for external evaluation and accreditati...

Introduction All nations are striving for development. Economic development is one of the main parts of development process, but not all of it. Populations health is one of the main factors of economic development, and child’s mortality is one of the main factors of population health status. The aim of this study is investigating the role of socioeconomic disparties in under 5 mortality in East...

background and aims: in order to plan for preventing and decreasing the rate of nursing errors, understanding of nurse’s perception of nursing errors could be very helpful. this study was thus designed to examine the critical care nurses perception of nursing errors from view point of critical care nurses. methods: this study was conducted in 9 hospitals in qazvin province located in north of i...

Background Infertility is the inability to conceive children after one year of unprotected intercourse. The estimated prevalence of infertility in Canada is 11.5-15.7%. Fertility problems affect approximately one in seven couples in the United Kingdom (UK). Infertility occurs in conditions in which the pregnancies end with recurrent miscarriages (ASR) or birth of a child with multiple congenita...

  Background To identify the prevalence of behavioural (Pre-pregnancy), obstetrical and medical risks of pregnancy in Iranian women.   Methods A total of 2993 postpartum women who delivered in 23 randomly selected hospitals of six provinces were enrolled in this nationwide cross-sectional study. A structured questionnaire was completed based on interviewees’ self-reports and medical record data...