INTRODUCTION Project ECHO Pain, the innovative telementoring program for health professionals, was developed in 2009 at the University Of New Mexico Health Sciences Center to fill considerable gaps in pain management expertise. Substantive continuing education for clinicians who practice in rural and underserved communities convenes weekly by means of telehealth technology. Case-based learning,...

The continued development of more effective and predictable methods for pain control is a process that combines the best efforts of basic and clinical scientists. This review explores the developing themes of clinical pain management strategies that are emerging from molecular, cellular, and physiologic research into pain mechanisms and emphasizes the unique opportunity that several years of we...

An estimated 110 million landmines, mostly antipersonnel mines laid in over 60 countries, kill or maim over 26 000 people a year. One of the dilemmas for removing landmines is the amount of false alarms in a typical minefield. Broadband electromagnetic induction spectroscopy (EMIS) is a promising technology that can both detect and identify buried objects as landmines. By reducing the number of...

background and objectives: as with most countries, in the developing communities, providing high quality services in the field of health care is affected by limited financial resources. applying the positive stimuli germane to the private sector to public hospital may be one solution to the public sector's problems, and the health care system, in general, for reducing hospital construction and ...

This research aimed at identifying the role of emotional intelligence (EI) -based management in improving faculty effectiveness. Research methodology was descriptive-survey of exploratory type. Statistical population were the faculty members in the Islamic Azad University branches across Tehran (N = 3500). The subjects of the study (sample) consisted of 351 faculty members selected through stra...

the purpose of this research was to study participative management and resistance to change dimensions as well as to survey their relationship in physical education organization and physical education department of ministry of education. for this purpose, 126 experts of physical education organization and 38 experts of physical education department of ministry of education were selected. data w...

background education, universal precautions, using protective glasses and a standard method of used needle disposal, are the most important strategies for preventing bloodborne infections. objectives the aim of this study was to compare the effect of a face-to-face education program with the effect of an official-imperative circular, on the needle-disposal behavior of nurses working in the shah...