background and aim: breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. early diagnosis of breast cancer is extremely effective in its treatment. the aim of this study was to investigate the impacts of education on breast self-examination knowledge, attitude, and practice among female employees of birjand university, birjand, iran.   materials and methods: this one-group pretest-posttest quasi...

conclusions it seems serial clinical examinations are safe and decrease the cost and duration of hospitalization in stable patients with anterior abdominal wall stab wounds. results ninety-one men (91%) and 9 women (9%) with mean age of 27 ± 10.7 years were included. coexisting injuries were prevalent in 12 cases. the duration of hospitalization was 1 day in 31%, 2 days in 30%, 3 - 4 days in 32...

objective: to evaluate the role of physical examination in decision making for exploring patients with penetrating zone ii neck injury. methods: this was a cross-sectional study being performed in a level i trauma center between 2006 and 2010. the present study reviewed the records of 150 patients with penetrating neck injuries. of 46 cases with zone ii deep platysma neck injuries, 3 patients d...

evaluation of the psychiatry residency graduates knowledge and competencies has traditionally relied on the individual patient assessment (ipa) method (1,2). however, this method is unreliable and its outcome depends to a large extent on the luck of the draw (3-5). past research has shown that objective structured clinical examination (osce) method has many advantages over ipa (6-9). as a resul...

the review of literature shows that a strong relationship exists between the symptoms of otolaryngologic diseases and gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd). it is commonly observed that an extended physical examination is needed to determine the occurrence of gerd. this non-randomized,prospective quasi-experimental study was performed to clinically verify the relationship between otolaryngolog...

cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) is an endemic disease in some parts of iran and it has high morbidity in some areas of the country. the disease is detected by parasitological examinations including direct microscopic and culture tests. this comparative study aimed to evaluate the relationship between positivity of the leishmanin skin test (lst), microscopically examination and clinical forms of cl...