the issue of medical errors is currently a global concern which places a heavy financial and emotional burden on communities. a clinical decision support system (cdss) is an electronic system designed to support clinical decision making. considering the increasing importance and use of systematized nomenclature of medicine-clinical terms (snomed-ct), we developed snomed-ct to implement it more ...

background: liver cirrhosis is an end-stage condition fornumerous chronic liver diseases. limited data exists on the epidemiology,natural history and complications of liver cirrhosis in ahvaz, iran. in a cross-sectional study we have retrospectively evaluated 165 patients from september 1, 1999 until september 1, 2008. materials and methods: patients with evidence of cirrhosis of the liver seen...

medical toxicology is somehow a neglected field of medicine. support for this discipline is necessary as there are many competing interests within a nation's public health priorities (1). in the previous issue of the asia pacific journal of medical toxicology, the essentials of the empowerment of medical toxicology in the asia pacific region have been discussed (2). perhaps, there is now an urg...

introduction: responsive medicine is an appropriate training method which trains the graduates who can act effectively in initial and secondary aspects of health issues in the society. methods: this was a cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study which was done using quantitative method. the target population of this study was all the students of the nutrition and health school of shiraz unive...

we examined the demographic characteristics of couples, ovarian response and sperm quality to determine the predictors of clinical fertilization in ivf cycles. a descriptive and analytic study was conducted using data and biologic specimens obtained fatemeh-alzahra of babol infertility center from 2004 to 2005. only data from 315 women who had medical indication for conventional ivf treatment w...

tinea capities is the commonest dermatophytosis in children with diverse clinical presentations. the causative fungi of tinea capitis vary with geographic area and time.this study was aimed to identify the etiologic agents and determine the related factors of tinea capitis in tehran, iran. from clinically suspected cases of tinea capitis, microscopy and culture were performed. of 58patients 96%...

background and objective: laboratory errors are one of the major factors that affect the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and monitoring in patients.the objective of study is to evaluate the frequency and type of errors in different phases of testing at the pathology department of the shalamar hospital, lahore and to evaluate the causes of errors. methods: this observational study was carried o...

kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculitis of children. among gastrointestinal symptoms of this disease jaundice occurs uncommonly. we present a 23 month boy with icter and clinical hepatitis and final diagnosis of kawasaki disease.

introduction: the importance of medical profession and the role of the physician in society is no secret to anyone. skills and competencies in clinical practice are necessary for the medical profession. in fact, in patient care, doctors require practical skills in addition to scientific knowledge. this study examines the potentials of medical school students in three areas of doing the right th...