background: coronary artery diseases are one of the most important issues in health and social problems. one of the amendable risk factors in development of these diseases is high cholesterol which can be modified through correction of lifestyle (diet change, playing sports, and usage of lipid‑lowering drugs). patients’ compliance to therapeutic programs is the most important element to achieve...

background: self medication is one of the commonest actions in the world. the purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice of students in universities of isfahan toward self medication. materials and methods: in this descriptive, analytical, cross-sectional study, 600 students of universities in isfahan were selected. since there are 3 public universities in isfah...

background: the most common types of medical error are medication errors (mes) which defined as any preventable event that may be caused by an inappropriate medication usage and lead to an adverse drug reaction (adr) event in patients. in recent years, different approaches have been proposed to reduce mes, one of which is reporting adrs. the present study was designed to assess the knowledge, a...

this study was performed to assess the incidence of medication errors and irrational use of human albumin in two wards of our hospital and also aimed to evaluate the ability of pharmaceutical care center and pharmacists in improving patient care. albumin administration was evaluated for patients who received albumin during the study period, in gastroenterology and general surgery wards. the ind...

introduction: caring is the essence of nursing and medication process is an important part of nursing related interventions in the health care systems. medical and/or nursing errors can lead to severe problems for both patients and nursing system. the purpose of this study was to investigate the ethical practice in medication process among nurses working in selected hospitals related to tehran ...

background various aspects of adherence to hcv treatment such as frequency, risk factors as well as causes of non-adherence, and its real role in clinical and virological outcome of the infected patients have remained largely unknown. objectives the current study aimed to evaluate patients’ adherence to anti-hcv medications in iran. materials and methods from october 2010 to march 2011, socio-d...

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results among a total of 152 subjects, 82.9% were female and their mean age was 22.57 ± 1.55 years. according to the students, instructors had the weakest performance in the three items of teaching pharmacology and medication management based on the students’ learning needs, teaching medication management through a patient-centered method and teaching pharmacology and medication management base...

background: hyperlipidemia is one of the most important factors in progression of coronary heart diseases, because of the importance of lipid control for preventing heart disease; this study has done to explore the relation between health beliefs and medications adherences in patients with hyperlipidemia. methods: this correlation study has done in 82 patients with hyperlipidemia. for obtain in...