background: continuous improvement of quality in higher education is the ultimate goal of any medical school. evaluation of research and educational status makes it possible to judge about the quality of educational achievements in a system. thus we evaluated the educational and research status of microbiology and virology department, faculty of medicine in mashhad university of medical science...

introduction: patient satisfaction is crucial to the long-run success in health care center. with regard to the highest patients’ referral to the emergency department and the existing challenges due to the patient’s need to urgent care, we aimed to evaluate health care services quality in this unit to find out whether the patients have different expectations from health care providers and if th...

introduction: aim of current study is determination of optimal number of nurses in the emergency department of shiraz ali asghar hospital. method: current study is an applied study and belongs to operational research (or) studies. the population has been studied in this research, includes records of referred patients to the emergency department of hospital in 2008. sampling was performed in the...

the legal and juridical pathology of end-al-estetaah (payable in case of affordability) condition in  mahriyeh (dowry) maryam aghaei bejestani [1] mohammad rohani mogaddam [2] jalal araghi [3]   abstract dowry as one of the aspects of marriage contract has been canonized to consolidate foundation of the family and prove man’s interest to the continuation family life. dowry division into end-al-...

Policy statement on voting by persons with dementia residing in longterm care facilities Jason Karlawish*, Paul S. Appelbaum, Richard Bonnie, Pamela Karlan, Stephen McConnell University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medicine, Institute on Aging and Center for Bioethics, Philadelphia, PA Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Division of Psychiatry, Law and Ethics Department of...

Background: Annual patient effective dose equivalent can be considered as a quantitative physical parameter describing the activities performed in each nuclear medicine department. Annual staff dose equivalent could be also considered as a parameter describing the amount of radiation risk for performing the activities. We calculated the staff to patient dose equivalent ratio to be used as a phy...

Road traffic casualties ( RTC) present a major health problem in Iran with a significant number of death and injuries among drivers, passengers and pedestrians of all ages. The purpose of this study was to achieve an understanding and knowledge about the pattern of the accident,s casualties in the city of Kerman. During one year period ( 1994-1995) all in- patient and out- patient cases referre...

Theoretical models of inhibitory activity for inhibitors of protein-protein interactions: targeting menin-Mixed Lineage Leukemia with small molecules Wiktoria Jedwabny,† Szymon K lossowski,‡ Trupta Purohit,‡ Tomasz Cierpicki,‡ Jolanta Grembecka,∗,‡ and Edyta Dyguda-Kazimierowicz∗,† †Department of Chemistry, Wroc law University of Science and Technology, Wroc law, Poland ‡Department of Pathology...