background hospital readmission places a high burden on both health care systems and patients. most readmissions are thought to be related to the quality of the health care system. objectives the aim of this study was to examine the causes and rates of early readmission in emergency department in a tehran hospital. patients and methods a cross-sectional investigation was performed to study read...

introduction: patient-nurse relationship has been recognized as the key factor in nursing practice. considering the importance of professional relationship in nursing discipline, and especially empathy and its professional role, the need to address this phenomenon in nursing education in iran is profoundly felt. objective: the present study was conducted with the aim to compare level of empathy...

memory impairment is one of the main features of post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd),there are multiple studies in memory impairment and cognitive function such as memory in a variety of explicit memory, implicit, procedural, active, declarative, revermid ,working, visual, false and autobiographical. the methodology of systematic review were, meta-analyzes and controlled studies of sites med ...

introduction: helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) is suggested to play a role in dyspepsia. the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of h. pylori, in dyspeptic patients. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 850 patients with dyspepsia in iran (2006-2007). the patients were selected using convenience sampling method. data was collected using rome iii criteria questionnaire....

background : lack of insight in patients with bipolar i disorder has been associated with poor course and clinical outcome and compromised therapeutic compliance. therefore, it is important to evaluate insight and use more specialized scales such as mood disorder insight scale (mdis) in these patients. our objective in this study was to assess validity and reliability of persian version of mdis...

background & purpose: in the health sector, in addition to the important consequence of treatment, health system should meet the expectations regarding the desirability of services. expectations and perceptions of patients about the desirability of services play an important role in selecting hospitals, their loyalty to the organization & replanning to purchase. thus the present study has been ...

il-32 and tnf? are important cytokines in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. il-32 has not been previously studied with respect to ms. here, we report il-32 and tnf? transcript levels in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of ms patients and control individuals by real time pcr. a significant difference in il-32 and tnf? mrna levels of patients as compared to controls was not observed. howeve...

maintaining dignity and respect is among patients’ most fundamental rights. the importance of patient dignity, the status quo, patients’ needs, and a shortage of survey studies in this area were the underlying incentives for conducting this study. this was a cross-sectional descriptive study in which data were collected through patient dignity inventory (pdi). the questionnaire was completed by...