In order to investigate the effect of pharmacist intervention on vancomycin use, this study was performed on all patients receiving vancomycin in the intensive care unit (ICU) and hematology-oncology ward of Taleghani Educational Hospital in Tehran, Iran. Vancomycin use was assessed during a pre- and post-intervention period in accordance with the Center of Disease Control and prevention (CDC) ...

abstract   background: patients with addictions have many acute and chronic medical illnesses, both related and unrelated to their addictions. in spite of high incidence of substance-related disabilities, substance abuse is usually underdiagnosed in general hospitals. the objective of the present study was to investigate the frequency and pattern of substance use in patients with different medi...

Planners have regarded understanding urban use per capita since the beginning of new thinking of urban development. This was stared with its pragmatics toward primary comprehensive urban plans and became a source for urban development plans that have tried to adapt per capita and standards with country’s conditions. Iran's Supreme Council for Planning and Architecture, determined standards per ...

OBJECTIVES As in software product lifecycle, the effort spent in maintaining medical knowledge in guidelines can be reduced, if modularization, formalization and tracking of domain knowledge are employed across the guideline development phases. METHODS We propose to exploit and combine knowledge templates with medical background knowledge from existing thesauri in order to produce reusable bu...

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Substance use disorders are characterized by a variable course, in which multiple treatment attempts and relapses are typical. Consistent with conceptualizations of substance use and relapse, life events have been implicated in contributing to poor substance use disorders treatment outcomes. However, inconsistencies in empirical findings regarding the life events-substance use disorders outcome...

In the previous issue of Critical Care, Raimondi and colleagues investigate whether lung ultrasonography has utility for the assessment of respiratory distress in the neonate. This commentary reviews the results and implications of their study.

An orthogonal approach to the creation of multiple nanoscale templates from a single supramolecular block copolymer system is presented. The enabling feature of this strategy is the design of block copolymers that incorporate independent degradation chemistries which permits each block copolymer to be addressed individually and sequentially. By blending a block copolymer containing H-bond donor...

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