BACKGROUND Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa not only triggered a grave public health crisis, but also exerted and induced huge mental distress on medical staff, which would negatively influence epidemic control and social rebuilt furthermore. We chose the local medical staff working at the China Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) to explore the severity of potential mental distress and involved pote...

OBJECTIVES Given the uncertainty about factors that influence receipt of Clinical Excellence Awards (CEA) and recent availability of advanced research metrics, we examined the factors that predict CEA success using a convenience sample of English psychiatrists. DESIGN Observational study examining region, subspecialty, H-index, M-index, number of publications, years since registration and yea...

One of the key issues in Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) is the efficient retrieval of cases when the case base is huge. In this paper we propose a case memory organization in two steps: 1) the case memory is organized using an unsupervised clustering technique, and 2) explanations for each cluster are constructed using all the cases associated to each one. The role of the explanations is twofold. O...

OBJECTIVES Quality of sleep (QoS) in individuals is affected by their occupation and is one of the factors affecting the quality of life (QoL). Few studies have evaluated the relationship between QoS and QoL in military women personnel. The aim of this study was to assess QoL and QoS, and compare their relationship among military and non-military women in Tehran. METHODS This cross-sectional ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of staff influenza vaccination on all-cause mortality in nursing home residents. DESIGN Pair-matched cluster-randomized trial. SETTING Forty nursing homes matched for size, staff vaccination coverage during the previous season, and resident disability index. PARTICIPANTS All persons aged 60 and older residing in the nursing homes. INTERVENTION Influenza...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of domestic marketing on the organizational innovation through mediation of the staff self-efficacy. the statistical population of this study includes 150 members of emersam company where the sample members were selected randomly. in order to collect the research data, three questionnaires have been used. these include the questionnaire of...

background and objectives: one of the latent and consequential factors of facilitation of organizational justice is staff members’ level of organizational commitment. the present study aimed at surveying the relationships between various dimensions of organizational justice with organizational commitment and job satisfaction of staff of a medical university. methods: 263 staff members were elig...

The Burn Scar Index, often called the Vancouver Scar Scale, is widely used in clinical practice and research to document change in scar appearance. Several sections of the Index require equipment to accurately score the items. Additionally, the numeric scores are difficult to remember. We recently devised a pocket-sized tool to aid in scoring the scar and to increase staff compliance in use of ...