Background: Back pain is a common patients’ complaint, and its etiology is important because of different potential treatment approaches (based on causes). For a better diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used in clinical settings that may result in inappropriate requests. This study aims to evaluate the appropriateness of the lumbosacral MRI requests in patients with ba...

Healthcare decisions are increasingly being made on research-based evidence, rather than on expert opinion or clinical experience alone. Consequently, the process by which the strength of scientific evidence is evaluated and developed by means of evidence-based medicine recommendations and guidelines has become crucial resulting in the past decade in unprecedented interest in evidence-based med...

intervention in early childhood development as one of the social determinants of health, is important for reducing social gap and inequity. in spite of increasingly developing intensive neonatal care wards and decreasing neonatal mortality rate, there is no follow up program in iran. this study was carreid out to design high risk infants follow up care program with the practical aim of creating...

background: back pain is a common patients’ complaint, and its etiology is important because of different potential treatment approaches (based on causes). for a better diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is widely used in clinical settings that may result in inappropriate requests. this study aims to evaluate the appropriateness of the lumbosacral mri requests in patients with back pai...

background: authorship of peer-reviewed publications can create conflict among academics. objective: to document authorship conflicts of academics at a tertiary faculty. methods: an anonymous questionnaire eliciting authorship conflicts and knowledge of authorship criteria was administered online to 154 academic staff members at a new zealand university. results: 43 academics responded, a respo...

background: the most common method of collecting data in any area of human health research is to apply a questionnaire. however, if extreme cautiousness is not taking into account while designing a questionnaire, the gathered data might be ineffective. therefore, the aim of the present article is to discuss some of the most important set of guidelines in designing a questionnaire.   materials a...