PURPOSE To report on the implementation and clinical outcomes of a community-based pulmonary rehabilitation program in rural Appalachia. METHODS Three rural health centers and a large referral hospital worked together to establish pulmonary rehabilitation services based on AACVPR guidelines. Each site hired at least 1 respiratory therapist. To measure clinical outcomes, a retrospective medica...

Stroke rehabilitation has been energized by the increasing confluence of supporting literature from animal studies, neuroimaging investigation of poststroke recovery, and an explosion of clinical rehabilitation trials. As basic scientists and clinical researchers converge, the exciting new technologies and more rigorous clinical methodologies used provide increasing support for some of the basi...

background the critical role that the board plays in governance of universities clarifies the necessity of evaluating its performance. this study was aimed to evaluate the performance of the boards of medical universities and provide solutions to enhance its performance.   methods the first phase of present study was a qualitative research in which data were collected through face-to-face semi-...

introduction: the use of new technologies has created much concern about privacy and security of health information. as regards health care workers are the main users of hospital information system aiming to improve the quality of care, this study as aimed to evaluate employee's perspective towards electronic health information security.   methods: this descriptive study was performed on 400 wo...

introduction: one of the common methods for scientific activity assessment is scientometrics. it has been made possible with citation databases like web of science (wos) and scopus. in this paper, we studied the scientific production rate of hamadan university of medical sciences during 11 years via scientometrics methods. methods: in a descriptive, cross-sectional study, data was collected by ...

Abstract Background and Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of executive functions in the relationship between fine motor skills and reading skills in students with reading disorders. Method: This research was descriptive-correlation and structural equation modeling. The research population of the study included all students with reading disorders who referred t...

BACKGROUND Many academic medical centers have increased their use of advertising to attract patients. While the content of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertisements (ads) has been studied, to our knowledge, advertising by academic medical centers has not. We aimed to characterize advertising by the nation's top academic medical centers. METHODS We contacted all 17 medical centers named...