BACKGROUND Research in medical education has been paid more attention than before; however the quality of research reporting has not been comprehensively appraised. To evaluate the methodological and reporting quality of Iranian published medical education articles. METHODS Articles describing medical students, residents, fellows or program evaluation were included. Articles related to contin...

Received: 28 March 2012 First Revision: 25 April 2012 Accepted: 25 July 2012 Ali Yoonessi1,3, Mojtaba Hajihasani4, Shahriar Gharibzadeh4, Mohammadreza Zarrindast1,3, Ahmad Yoonessi5 1. School Of Advanced Medical Technologies, Tehran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 2. Eye Research Center, Tehran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 3. Iranian National Center For Addiction ...

Mohammadhiwa Abdekhoda, Narges Salehi, Vahide zare Gavgani. Assistance Professor of Health Information Management, Department of Medical Library and Information Science. School of Health Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of medical science, Tabriz, Iran; Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management (IceHM).School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University ...

BACKGROUND Recent technological developments in medicine, including modern radiology have promoted the impact of scientific researches on social life. The scientific outputs such as article and patents are products that show the scientists' attempt to access these achievements. OBJECTIVES In the current study, we evaluate the current situation of Iranian scientists in the field of radiology a...

BACKGROUND This research aimed to systematically study and outline the methods of hospital performance evaluation used in Iran. METHODS In this systematic review, all Persian and English-language articles published in the Iranian and non-Iranian scientific journals indexed from Sep 2004 to Sep 2014 were studied. For finding the related articles, the researchers searched the Iranian electronic...

Addiction Research Centre1, Clinical Toxicology Department2, Cardiac Anaesthesia Research Centre, Emergency Department3, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Faculty of Pharmacy, and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Centre, Tehran University of Medical Sciences4, Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences5, Tehran, Iran, Environmental Health Services, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouv...

Based on Eysenbach’s view, infodemiology can be defined as the science of distribution and determinants of information in an electronic medium, specifically the Internet, or in a population, with the ultimate aim to inform public health and public policy. The current study aimed to investigate the state of health information supply and demand on stomach cancer among Iranian medical researchers ...