a field study was carried out among 265 post surgical patients in 67 surgical wards belonging to teaching hospitals located in tehran. the purpose of this study was to determine the amount of dipyron administration in the first 48 hours of postoperative period and the accuracy of its recording in the medication records by the nursing staff, meanwhile the physicians' post operative analgesi...

BACKGROUND Standardized doctor's orders are replacing traditional order writing in teaching hospitals. The impact of this shift in practice on medical education is unknown. It is possible that preprinted orders interfere with knowledge acquisition and retention by not requiring active decision-making. The objective of the study was to evaluate the impact of standardized admission orders on dise...

Complete, accurate and timely hospital discharge summaries are important for continuity of care. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an electronic discharge summary system in improving the medication information provided compared to the information in paper discharge summaries. We conducted a retrospective audit of 199 paper and 200 electronic discharge summaries from a 3...

General relativity with higher-derivative terms could constitute a suitable route to quantize gravity. The gravitational Lagrangian with 8 terms preserves many of the good properties of simple general relativity2 and may lead to a framework in which quantum gravity would become renormalizable. However, it was soon realized that this kind of theory confronts two fundamental problems. The first d...