BACKGROUND Failure to follow-up laboratory test results has been described as one of the major processes contributing to unsafe patient care. Currently, most of the laboratories do not know with certainty not only their rate of missed (or unreviewed) requests but the economical cost and impact that this issue implies. The aim of our study was to measure that rate and calculate the resulting cos...

background: the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of job dissatisfaction, and to ascertain the association between job strain and job dissatisfaction and socio-demographic and occupational factors among laboratory staff of universiti putra malaysia (upm). methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted among 450 research laboratory staff in 10 faculties and 8 institutes of...

emergency physicians face numerous questions regarding proper management of patients and selection of the best laboratory test or imaging every day. knowledge on screening performance characteristics of the diagnostic tools used in this department plays an important role in finding the answers to these questions. we assessed these characteristics in the previous parts of educational article ser...

in this article, we evaluated 17 iranian soldiers who were exposed to mustard gas utilized by the iraqi forces in the war fronts. their clinical symptoms and signs, laboratory tests, and other parameters were carefully assessed, an attempt was made to identify a finding of prognostic significance, and patients who recovered from the acute phase were followed to determine possible long-term effe...

In this article, we evaluated 17 Iranian soldiers who were exposed to mustard gas utilized by the Iraqi forces in the war fronts. Their clinical symptoms and signs, laboratory tests, and other parameters were carefully assessed, an attempt was made to identify a finding of prognostic significance, and patients who recovered from the acute phase were followed to determine possible long-term...

the goal of this prospective study was to determine die prevalence of certain surgical findings in iranian patients with appendicitis in one of our surgical centers, including: position of the appendix, rate of true appendicitis, perforation, and peritonitis. duplication was observed in 4%, surface exudate in 52%, gangrenous necrosis in 27%, swelling in 79%, appendix in the left lower quadrant ...

Bacterial meningitis in infants and children is a serious clinical entity with signs symptoms that commonly do not allow distinguishing the diagnosis causative agents. The only method to determine if cause of these lumbar puncture. Lumbar puncture gold standard for should be done all suspected cases unless contraindicated. Objectives: purpose this study identify importance microbiological cereb...