Introduction: Visiting patient in intensive care unit (ICUs) is one of the major challenges in healthcare. The belief that visiting will increase the anxiety and create destructive effects on the patient's physiological indices, has led to a serious visiting restriction for patients and their. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the effect of flexible (planned) visiting policy on ...

Background and purpose: Functional ovarian cysts are common in reproductive age female. According to high prevalence of functional ovarian cysts and costs for community-based diagnosis and treatment, this study aimed to evaluate the relationship between fertility history and lifestyle factors with functional ovarian cysts. Materials and methods: This case-control study was done in 280 women ...

Background and purpose: Despite rapid progress in medical treatments and acute care technology during the past 30 years alongside increasing costs of medical care, the analysis of outcomes such as mortality risk have been a challenge in intensive care units. The purpose of this study was to predict the mortality rate of premature infants in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) using artificial n...

Background and purpose: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is one of the most common chronic disorders of the digestive system. This survey was performed to determine the effect of Temperament–based dietary intervention on the symptoms of GERD.     Materials and methods: In a randomized clinical trial, 60 patients with GERD attending the Qaem Hospital in Mashh...

Introduction & Objective: Leishmaniasis is a major worldwide health problem throughout the world and in Iran as well. Skin lesions are mostly healing but nonhealing cases have also increased recently. T-helper type1 (Th1) responses induction helps the patients to resist against the disease while T-helper type2 (Th2) responses cause susceptibility to disease. With the assessment of IL-5, IL-10...

 Background: Advanced oxidation processes such as Fenton and photo-Fenton that have been applied effectively to oxide the persistent organic compounds in leachate and converts them to unharmful materials and final products. However, there are a few data about application of Fenton-like process in leachate treatment. Therefore, the aim of this study was to treat the municipal landfill leachate b...

Introduction: Reducing health care costs and providing high quality health care services are of prime importance. The present study aims to employ the concept of electronic service quality in health care industry to provide a framework for analysis and evaluation of electronic health care services. Methods: This study was conducted between 2012 and 2013, and the data collection was done in ...