Alexandra Lucas, MD, FRCP(C)1,2,*, Sriram Ambadapadi, PhD1, Brian Mahon, PhD3, Kasinath Viswanathan, PhD4, Hao Chen, MD, PhD5, Liying Liu, MD6, Erbin Dai, MD6, Ganesh Munuswami-Ramanujam, PhD7, Jacek M. Kwiecien, DVM, MSc, PhD8, Jordan R Yaron, PhD1, Purushottam Shivaji Narute, BVSc & AH, MVSc, PhD1,9, Robert McKenna, PhD10, Shahar Keinan, PhD11, Westley Reeves, MD, PhD12, Mark Brantly, MD, PhD...

* MIS Researcher, Department of Management Information Systems, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan. E-mail: [email protected] ** MIS Researcher, Department of Management Information Systems, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan. E-mail: [email protected] *** Lecturer, Department of Computer Information System, Computer Science and Information Technology College, Jordan University of Scienc...

1Department of Community and Family Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. 2Department of Health Policy and Management, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan. Received: 30/04/03; accepted: 26/10/03 ABSTRACT The study analysed time utilization by a sample of 111 physicians, nurses and midwives in 62 primary health care facilities in Jordan. The providers’ activity ov...

INTRODUCTION To report the experience of the Jordan University Hospital with respect to the surgical treatment of otosclerosis and to compare results and complications with published studies. MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical records of all patients who underwent stapes surgery for otosclerosis at the Jordan University Hospital during the period January 2003 to December 2010 were reviewed. ...

To study exposure to environmental tobacco smoke during the first year of life, 220 infants attending the outpatient paediatric clinic of the University of Jordan for routine visits with their mothers were recruited to the study. Mothers completed a questionnaire about smoking habits of household members, and urine samples were obtained from infants for analysis of cotinine levels. A total of 6...

OBJECTIVE To study diabetic neuropathy (DN) at Jordan University Hospital (JUH) with the aim of assessing age/gender distribution, risk factors, and other diabetic microvascular complications, clinical manifestations, results of nerve conduction studies (NCS), and treatment modalities, and to compare these findings with those from Western and other Middle/Far Eastern literatures. METHODS Amon...

In a prospective controlled study, we aimed to determine the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Jordanian women attending an infertility clinic and whether screening is useful as part of routine investigations for infertility. Two groups of patients (152 infertile patients and 146 control patients) had endocervical swab testing by polymerase chain reaction for the presence of C. t...

OBJECTIVE Study of the disease patterns and clinical evaluation of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). SUBJECTS AND METHODS A retrospective analysis was carried out on 85 patients, with MDS who were followed up over a period of 23 years at Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan. Cases were analyzed according to the French, American and British Classification. RESULTS Of the 85 patients, 42 (...

OBJECTIVE Idiopathic headache is a stressful complaint, whose treatment is not well established. Our study is an attempt to examine the relationship between idiopathic headache and inferior turbinate cauterization as a surgical treatment, and to explain the central physiological effect of cauterization. METHODS Thirty-four patients, 15 females and 19 males complaining of idiopathic headache w...