The purpose of this research was to assess the role of educational factors in protecting urbanlandscapes in Tehran Metropolitan. This is a quantitative research, applied and descriptivecorrelationmethod was used. The research population consisted of all participants in educationalcourses held by Tehran municipality (N=300) and 172 of them selected by using simple randomsampling method. To gathe...

Methods The study was a cross-sectional survey carried out at Parirenyatwa Hospital Opportunistic Infections Clinic. A convenience sample of 263 HIV-infected adults was taken from the Zimbabwe National Antiretroviral Rollout Program. Using a previously piloted researcher administered questionnaire; patients who reported to the clinic over six months were interviewed about their use of herbal me...

introduction: the berlin questionnaire (bq) is a common tool to screen for obstructive sleep apnea (osa) in the general population, but its application in the clinical sleep setting is still challenging. the aim of this study was to determine the specificity and sensitivity of the bq compared to the apnea-hypopnea index obtained from polysomnography recordings obtained from a sleep clinic in ir...

introduction: careful planning on health care may prevent the spread of disease and reduce the expense for treatment. regarding the importance of health care in the clinical centers including physiotherapy clinics, this study was designed to investigate the rate of bacterial contamination of electrotherapy’s pads which use in the physiotherapy clinics of semnan university of medical sciences (i...

conclusions about one-third of the patients referring to the pain clinic had subacute pain. the patients with chronic pain were older and more obese, had a higher prevalence of addiction, had more cases of knee pain, and reported more instances of obscure and persistent pain than those with subacute pain. objectives the aim of the present study was to assess and compare the sociodemographic cha...

We read with interest the recent paper by Hwang et al. [1] from Taiwan describing changes in fluid gain related to seasonal climate change in their HD patients. We have also noted seasonal changes in volume and blood pressure status in the patients treated at our two hospitals, one (Min Shen) situated in the North of Taiwan and the other (Tung Hospital) situated in central Taiwan. During 2007, ...

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conclusions our results validate that telephonic confirmation of clinic appointment plays a significant role in reducing the nar in paediatric out-patient clinic setting. patients and methods nar was reviewed for 6 months (february-july 2013) and compared with the nar for similar duration in 2014 (before and after implementation of telephone reminders). within 2014 data, comparison was also mad...