A.S. Awidi, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Consultant Hematologist, Jordan University Hospital, Amman (Jordan) To the Editor, I wish to draw your attention to the paper by E.A. Alsabti and M. Hammadi (Acta haemat. 61: 47–51, 1979). In that paper the authors claim to have studied the pattern and occurrence of inherited bleeding syndromes in Jordan over a period of 1 year. In the abstract t...

1 Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. 2 Department of Pharmacology and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Petra University, Amman, Jordan. 3 Department of Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. 4 Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutica...

OBJECTIVES THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO ANALYZE CLINICAL RECORDS OF DENTAL PATIENTS ATTENDING THE DENTAL DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN HOSPITAL: a teaching hospital in Jordan. Analysis aimed at determining whether dental specialists properly documented the drug prescriptions and local anesthetic injections given to their patients. METHODS Dental records of the Dental Department at th...

1Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. Received: 27/01/03; accepted: 06/05/03 ABSTRACT We investigated antimicrobial resistance patterns and plasmid profiles of uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolates from inpatients and outpatients at Jordan University Hospital in 2000 and 2001. E. coli accounted for 32.4% and 37.4% of all isolates ...

1. Dept. of Community and Mental Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Mafraq, Jordan 2. Dept. of Maternal, Child and Family Health, School of Nursing, the Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan 3. Dept. of Adult Health, School of Nursing, Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan 4. Unit of E-Learning & Information Technology, College of Nursing, King Saud University, Al-Diriyah, Saudi Arabia 5. Dept. of Midw...

PURPOSE To evaluate clinical outcomes, quality-adjusted life years (QALY), cost effectiveness and cost utility associated with VNS therapy in children with refractory epilepsy in a developing country. METHODS Retrospective review of all children who underwent VNS implantation at King Abdullah University Hospital and Jordan University Hospital in Jordan. RESULTS Twenty eight patients (16 mal...