Background:Students are the main customers of the universities. Thus, their perceptions and expectations of the educational quality is of great importance in planning for quality improvement. This study is aimed on evaluating the quality of clinical education in hospitals affiliated with Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study. Three hundred and t...

Introduction: To report the experience of the Jordan University Hospital with respect to the surgical treatment of otosclerosis and to compare results and complications with published studies.   Materials and Methods: The medical records of all patients who underwent stapes surgery for otosclerosis at the Jordan University Hospital during the period January 2003 to December 2010 were reviewed. ...

BACKGROUND To compare the quantitative antibiotic use between hospitals or hospital units and to explore differences, adjustment for severity of illness of hospitalized patients is essential. The case mix index (CMI) is an economic surrogate marker (i.e. the total cost weights of all inpatients per a defined time period divided by the number of admissions) to describe the average patients' morb...

background: one of the means of assessing dose to patients from computed tomography (ct) procedure is through the determination of the skin entrance dose (esd) with the appreciation of the concern that ocular exposure effects from ct scan includes possible induction of cancer and cataract. due to the relatively more recent introduction of ct scans, little work has been done in this area in the ...

human immune deficiency virus (hiv) infection is a pandemic, even among pregnant women. it has no cure and so, great importance should be placed on care and support for the sufferer. there is an increasing concern and desire to curb the high incidence of mother to child transmission (mtct) in nigeria. therefore, this study aimed at determining the prevalence and pattern of hiv infection at imo ...

Because the judge, prosecutor and defense attorney agreed that 19 year old Melissa Norris was insane in April [19761 when she beat her 3-month-old son to death while trying to exorcise "Satan", she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and will not go to prison. [Because the judge later ruled] that Miss Norris now is sane, she also cannot be sent to a mental hospital. So she walked out oft...

Introduction / objectives Nosocomial infections are one of the most important health problems particularly in developing countries, because these infections cause high mortality and morbidity and have many economic loss consequences. To date however most surveillance studies have been conducted in most of developed countries, only a very few have been accomplished in Iran. The aim of this study...