background & aim: healthcare areas, especially fertility care (commonly accompanied with high emotions, as well as long-term and recurring treatment periods) could exclusively benefit from patient-centered care (pcc). despite evident advantages of pcc, this approach has not been practiced as a routine procedure in current clinical environments yet, even in western developed countries. therefore...

in order to equip medical students with all the necessary skills in dealing with patients to provide optimal treatment, the need for the use of real patients in educational settings has become prominent. but all the required skills cannot be practiced on real patients due to patients’ safety and well-being. thus, the use of standardized patients (sps) or simulated patients (sips) as a substitut...

introduction: one of the most important indices of effectiveness and delivery quality of sanitary and medical services is patient satisfaction with hospital services. it is necessary that hospitals pay attention to patient's needs and ensure their satisfaction. therefore the current study was conducted with the aim of identifying the level of patient satisfaction with hospital services delivere...

Background Fatigue in RA has a multi-causal pathway. It is recommended that it should be measured all studies using validated instrument. elderly patients could have different perception than younger patients, identifying the associated factors key to management of this complex symptom. Objectives To compare fatigue and its young with from two university hospitals. Methods A cross-sectional ana...

Lennox–Gastaut syndrome is an epileptic encephalopathy with onset in childhood. The classical triad of diagnostic criteria well known: 1) presence various types refractory seizures (tonic, atypical absences, myoclonic, tonic/atonic drop attacks, generalized tonic-clonic, focal); 2) cognitive disorders frequent behavioral (not always evident by the beginning seizures); 3) generalized, slow (≤2.5...