1 Research Center of Thalassemia and Hemoglobinopathy, Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran 2 Hematology and Oncology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IR Iran 3 Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands 4 Young Researchers Club, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad U...

Background: Clinical decision-making and self-efficacy are essential parts of nurses' professional work, which includes information analysis, proper implementation decisions in the clinical field. Objectives: The present study investigated perspectives anesthesia nursing students on skills. Methods: This cross-sectional was done 70 undergraduate at Jundishapur University Medical Sciences Ahvaz,...

DOI: 10.5812/jjpharma.7171 © 2012 School of Pharmacy, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences; Published by Kowsar Corp. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly c...

Background: Invasive fungal infections acquired in the hospital have progressively emerged as an important cause of lifethreatening infection. In particular, airborne fungi in hospitals are considered critical pathogens of hospital-associated infections. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the airborne fungi of indoor environments of educational hospitals in the city of Ahvaz,

INTRODUCTION Hypertension is an important cause of stroke, heart and kidney disease and these diseases are the cause for about two-thirds of all mortalities around the world. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence, awareness and risk factors of hypertension in Ahvaz, southwest of Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this descriptive-analytical study, 944 participants older t...

Aim The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and subtype distribution of Blastocystis and its relation with demographic data and symptoms in humans referred to medical centers in Ahvaz 2014-2015. Background Infections with intestinal parasites are one of the most important threats to human health worldwide, especially in tropical and subtropical areas. Blastocystis sp. is ...

BACKGROUND The nurses as the largest group among different groups of hospital workforce play a crucial role in success of the hospital activities and promotion of community health. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to obtain an estimation of the necessary nursing workforce status in educational hospitals affiliated to Ilam and Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences based on the scientific formula. ...

A 33% of elderly people in the world are at risk of zinc deficiency.1 Reports from different countries have shown prevalence of zinc deficiency among old people.2-4 Diet surveys indicate that zinc intake in the elderly are often inadequate. Several factors may contribute to poor zinc nutrition among the elderly. These include reduction in food intake due to reduced mobility or depression, and p...

In this study, the accuracy of copula-based model in simulation dew point temperature various climates Iran was investigated, using simulations based on vine copulas such as C-, D-, and R-vine copulas. By examining their tree sequences, best copula sequence AIC, BIC, log-likelihood were selected. The results show that complete similarity our case between D- copulas, selected C-vine fit well dep...