purpose: to report five cases of wolfram syndrome, an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease with ِdiabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, and deafness (didmoad syndrome). patients and findings: all of the five patients had diabetes mellitus and optic atrophy. four patients had hearing loss. in spite of persistence of polyuria and polydipsia, diabetes insipidus had been prev...

This study aims at investigating the relationship between age and gender of auditors and their judgment and decision. Population of this study includes dependent auditors engaged in audit firms member of Iranian Association of Certified Public Accountants (IACPA). Random sampling was used and the questionnaireswere distributed among 100 auditors. The methodology of the study is descriptive-surv...

OBJECTIVE To study variation in quality of life and quality of care in patients with diabetes experiencing three different models of care: traditional hospital care, hospital/general practitioner (GP) shared care, and structured GP care. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A cross-sectional study involving 1,456 patients with diabetes (71% response rate) was conducted. Quality of life was assessed wi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) on quality of life (QOL) among individuals with type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In a multicenter trial, 451 children and adults with type 1 diabetes were randomly assigned to CGM treatment or the control group. Generic and diabetes-specific QOL questionnaires were completed at baseline and 26 weeks by all par...

OBJECTIVE To develop a linguistically and psychometrically validated U.K. English (U.K./Ireland) version of the Diabetes-Specific Quality-of-Life Scale (DSQOLS) for adults with type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted independent forward and backward translation of the validated German DSQOLS. An iterative interview study with health professionals (n = 3) and adults with type...

AIMS To determine the effectiveness of self-audit tools designed to detect miscoding, misclassification and misdiagnosis of diabetes in primary care. METHODS We developed six searches to identify people with diabetes with potential classification errors. The search results were automatically ranked from most to least likely to have an underlying problem. Eight practices with a combined popula...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether improvements in glycemic control and diabetes-specific quality of life (QoL) scores reported in research studies for the type 1 diabetes structured education program Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating (DAFNE) are also found when the intervention is delivered within routine U.K. health care. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Before and after evaluation of DAFNE to asses...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural pattern of the effect of corporate governance mechanisms (internal organization) on audit quality considering the role of the intermediary variable of behavioural components of auditors. The statistical population of this research is independent auditors and auditors working in audit firms. A sample of 395 people was selected by simple...