ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To study the attitudes of Iranian medical students towards the do-not-resuscitate (DNR) decision. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 220 medical students (110 interns and 110 residents) of Tehran University of medical sciences were selected. They asked to answer to the questionnaire which included two items: first item consisted of demographic questions (age, sex, an...

The life of every living organism is sustained by the presence of oxygen and the acute deprivation of oxygen will, therefore, result in hypoxia and ultimately death. Although oxygen is normally present in the air, higher concentrations are required to treat many disease processes. Oxygen is therefore considered to be a drug requiring a medical prescription and is subject to any law that covers ...

544 P&T® • September 2011 • Vol. 36 No. 9 order not be processed until all parties are satisfied that the problem has been resolved. A health care professional’s persistence in communicating a perceived problem, even when he or she faces opposition from experts, can usually prevent an error from reaching patients. Thus, an effective process for handling conflicts involving drug therapy requires...

BACKGROUND Documentation of resuscitation status in hospitalized patients has relevance in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest. Its association with mortality, Length Of hospital Stay (LOS) and the patients' primary diagnosis has not been established in general medical inpatients in hospitals in Australia and New Zealand. AIM To investigate the association of resuscitation orders with in...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of pediatric patients' death records of a tertiary care center, comparing these records with data from a previous study. METHODS Death records entered on the medical charts of non-resuscitated patients between 1999 and 2001 were compared with the medical procedure during cardiac arrest, which was described based on the Utstein-style guidelines. Our results w...

Medical professionals need to handle the orders for their patients. Many steps can go wrong in the result management process and current systems fail to solve the missed results problem. We introduce our design guidelines for rich tabular displays to ensure timely medical care: (i) show pending results, (ii) prioritize by late and lost status, (iii) clarify responsibility, and (iv) embed action...