Clinical scenario A rural hospital hires a new infection control professional, EL, who has just received her master’s degree and trained in infection control departments that were up to date on the best evidence. EL reviews the infection control policies and learns that traditional central line catheters are used. Where she trained, a new,more expensive, antiseptic catheter was used. The new ca...

In the EBN notebooks that have appeared in the previous 2 issues of the journal, we outlined 3 steps to help us to determine whether to apply the results of a research study to our patients. Firstly, we should consider whether the study results are valid. For articles about the effectiveness of healthcare interventions, the 3 key validity issues are whether the patients were randomly assigned t...

Clinical scenario A rural hospital hires a new infection control professional, EL, who has just received her master’s degree and trained in infection control departments that were up to date on the best evidence. EL reviews the infection control policies and learns that traditional central line catheters are used. Where she trained, a new,more expensive, antiseptic catheter was used. The new ca...

Objective: To study the efficacy and safety of Topiramate versus Sodium Valproate for the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder in Adolescents Methodology: One hundred twenty adolescents (aged 12-18) with an admission diagnosis of bipolar I disorder, manic or mixed episode were enrolled from the Adolescent Ward at Ebn-e-Sina Psychiatric Center of Mashhad University. They were assigned to receive 8 week...

Majid Naderi Shadi Tabibian Maryam Sadat Hosseini Shaban Alizadeh Soudabeh Hosseini Hossein Karami Hassan Mahmoodi Nesheli Akbar Dorgalaleh Departement Of Pediatrics Hematology & Oncology, Ali Ebn-e Abitaleb Hospital Research Center For Children And Adolescents Health [RCCAH], Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, IR Iran Department of Hematology, Allied Medical School, Tehran Univer...

W. Grisold, R. Galvin, V. Lisnic, J. Lopes Lima, E. Mueller, St. Oberndorfer, D. B. Vodusek and UEMS-EBN and EFNS Education Committee Departments of Neurology and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neurooncology , Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital of the City of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Department of Neurology, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland; Department of Neurology, Medical University, Chisinau...

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