Even though an increasing portion of biomedical research today relies on the use of bioresources, at present biobankers are not able to trace this use in scientific literature and measure its impact with a variety of citation metrics. The "BRIF (Bioresource Research Impact Factor) and journal editors" subgroup was created precisely with the aim to study this issue and to build a standardized sy...

Iran including attractive places and high potential for tourism (external and internal) and investing on tourism industry including social and economic effects leading to constancy of tourism areas. Unfortunately, despite high capacity of developing tourism in our country, this capacity has not recognized well and has not utilized for development of Iran. The special factors influence on transi...

A major limiting factor in the acceptability of interactive guideline and decision support systems is the ease of use of the system in the clinic. A way to reduce demands upon users and increase flexibility of the interface is to use natural language dialogues and speech based interfaces. This paper describes a voicebased data capture and decision support system in which knowledge of underlying...

The means through which Clinical Practice Guidelines are disseminated and become accessible are a crucial factor in their later adoption by health care professionals. Making these guidelines available in Clinical Decision Support Systems renders their application more personal and thus acceptable at the moment of care. Web technologies may play an important role in increasing the reach and diss...

of the Clinical Problem Hypertension is a leading risk factor formortality anddisability. Recent estimates are that 874 million adults worldwide have an SBP of 140mmHgorhigher.1,2With itsassociationwithCVD,stroke(cerebrovascular accident [CVA]), heart failure, and chronic kidney disease (CKD), hypertension is second only to cigarette smokingasapreventablecauseofdeath in theUnitedStates.3Given d...

abstract aim and background: applying evidence-based treatment guidelines to improve the quality of care for patients with schizophrenia has been increased worldwide. in this study, we evaluated the adherence of clinicians to the guideline for patients with schizophrenia who were admitted to a university hospital in their first episode of disease. methods and materials: in a descriptive study, ...

در سالهای اخیر پیشرفتهای چشمگیری در تشخیص و درمان هپاتیت مزمن ب به دست آمده  و هر چند سال یک بار تغییر و تحولات قابل توجهی در نحوه درمان چنین بیمارانی به دنبال داشته است. اگرچه در چند سال اخیر راهنماهای درمانی متعددی برای هپاتیت مزمن ب در سطح دنیا ارائه شده است(5-1)، با گذشت زمان و انجام تحقیقات جدید، تفاوتهایی بین راهنماهای درمان قابل مشاهده می شود. علاوه بر این بسیاری از داروهای جدید قیمت بسی...

Abstract Contributions to medical guidelines, so far, have hardly been considered in the measurement and evaluation of research performance Germany. We therefore examined 70 high-quality guidelines from years 2017 2018 investigated type publications cited by whether citation rates articles differ between substantiating guideline recommendations background text, or not Journal Impact Factor is c...

A mediation effect explains the relationship of a risk factor and an outcome through a mediator variable which is a step in their pathway. Under the assumption of no cycling in the causal relationship, we consider various situations in which a fourth variable may interfere the estimation of a mediation effect as a confounding factor. Our asymptotic results, which are supported by a Monte Carlo ...