OBJECTIVE To compare documentation of two groups of clinical nutrition practitioners for evidence of the nutrition care process. DESIGN This study used a comparative descriptive design. A retrospective chart review was conducted on all nutrition documentation in closed patient records. Documentation of two groups of nutrition practitioners (institution A=practitioners who received initial ori...

cytomorphological changes of mitomycin c on urothelial cells may be misinterpreted as a neoplastic process. a 60-year old male patient who was given an eight-week course of intravesical mitomycin c due to non-invasive low grade transitional cell carcinoma. during his follow-up care, the findings of a urine cytology exam were as follows: nuclear enlargement of cells, wrinkled nuclear membranes, ...

emergency departments (eds) are the most challenging ward with respect to patient delay. the goal of this study is to present strategies that have proven to reduce delay and overcrowding in eds. in this review article, initial electronic database search resulted in a total of 1006 articles. thirty articles were included after reviewing full texts. inclusion criteria were assessments of real pat...

introduction: patient safety culture is an important part of improvement in the safety of health care. knowing its present status is required for development of safety culture. the present study aimed to evaluate the current status of patient safety culture in hospitals of three central provinces of iran. method: the present cross-sectional study was performed in teaching hospitals of tehran, a...

the purpose of performing this research was studying relationship of religious orientation and interpersonal trust with educational progress of students. the research was descriptive correlation one.statistical population included all highschool students of birjand city in educational year 93-94 ,which was based on morgan table and random cluster method ,355 samples was chosen and studied. to g...

A patient with a unilateral lesion that included the retrosplenial area had a propensity to attend to contralateral stimuli. To determine whether the retrosplenial-area lesion was inducing this defect, unilateral retrosplenial lesions were produced in rats by surgical aspiration. Animals were assessed preoperatively and postoperatively for orientation and habituation to bilateral simultaneous s...

The utility of a novel, high-precision, non-intrusive, wireless, accelerometer-based patient orientation monitoring system (APOMS) in determining orientation change in patients undergoing radiation treatment is reported here. Using this system a small wireless accelerometer sensor is placed on a patient's skin, broadcasting its orientation to the receiving station connected to a PC in the contr...