Objective To investigate the literature for evidence that workplace based assessment affects doctors’ education

this systematic review aimed to help better to understand the epidemiology of suicidal behaviors among eastern mediterranean region (emr) countries. the pubmed, emr medex, scopus, psychinfo, isi, and imemr were searched with no language limitation for papers on the epidemiology of suicidal behaviors in the general population, published up to august 2013. a total of 13 articles were reviewed. th...

background and objective : restless legs syndrome (rls) is a sensorimotor disorder that causes sleep deprivation. rls is characterized by discomfort in the legs and severe desire to move them during sleep. different prevalence rates about rls are reported in iran. this systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to estimate the prevalence of rls in iran. materials and methods : by searchi...

in this study, we aimed to conduct a meta-analysis on the results of eligible studies to estimate the prevalence of asthma, copd, and chronic bronchitis in iran. international and iranian databases including pubmed, scopus, web of science, iranmedex, and scientific information database (sid) were searched for population–based studies that had reported the prevalence of asthma and copd from 1990...

background: gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) is one of the most prevalent disorders affecting gastrointestinal tract with a wide range of frequency around the world. in this study, we aimed to review all of the published studies about gerd’s prevalence in iran systematically. methods: we searched bibliographic databases including pubmed and google scholar and local databases (scientific i...

background and objective: febrile seizure is the most common convulsive disorder in children and different studies reported controversial results about the association between this disorder and iron deficiency, in some studies, iron level in children with febrile seizures is higher than control and in some reports is less than the control group. so, we systematically reviewed all the studies in...

background hepatitis e virus (hev) is one of common causes of viral hepatitis worldwide with higher prevalence in tropical and subtropical regions. although epidemics of hev have been reported from iran, there are variable reports of this infection out of epidemics from different parts of iran. this study aimed to determine the seroprevalence of hev in iran. methods in this systematic review an...

aim : in this study, we aimed to estimate one- to five-year survival rates in iranian patients with gastric cancer (gc). in addition, we preformed subgroup analyses and meta-regression to explore possible sources of heterogeneity between studies.   background : according to literatures, there has been increasing attention to the long-term survival rate in patients with gc in iran. however, resu...