objectives: the current study aimed to first assess the quality, popularity and importance of websites providing persian health-related information, and second to evaluate the correlation of the popularity and importance ranking with quality score on the internet. materials and methods: the sample websites were identified by entering the health-related keywords into four most popular search eng...

introduction: consumers have referred to the web to learn how they can improve their health, prevent disease and learn details about specific diseases. while efforts are being made to monitor information found on the web especially with the emergence of her: electronic health record in iran, they are not enough to cover every web site with health information. as a result, it was decided to eval...

OBJECTIVE: Men affected with Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (BPH) and Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) are demonstrating to require an increasing amount of attention from Urologists and Primary‐care Physicians. Over the years, common urological medications were based on either alpha‐blockers and/or 5alpha‐reductase inhibitors. During the last decade the phytotherapeutic drugs are gaining a more...

evaluation of clinical skills in midwives graduated from mashhad nursing and midwifery faculty and employed in mashhad health care centers     mirzakhani k [1] *, jahani shorab n [2] , golmakani n [3] , tafazoli m [4] , ebrahimzadeh s [5]     received: 29july, 2011 accepted: 28august, 2011     abstract   background & aims : suitable midwifery skills could prevent many deaths of maternal, fetal,...

introduction: the scientific, technological and economic development of a society is closely related to its public health. therefore; improvement of health service quality along with increasing the number of health facilities is one of the main concerns of health care authorities in developed countries. this study was designed to compare accreditation models of health care organizations in euro...

quality of life measures can provide an important source of medical information for promoting the health status of chronically ill patients. the purpose of the present study was to evaluate health related quality of life in psychiatric veterans of the iraq- iran war of the 1980s.they were out patients diagnosed with various psychiatric symptoms. the present study used a cross sectional design, ...

based on iran by 2025 defined vision, we must to receive the first grade of science position in south western asian region. thus we need to have a comprehensive evaluation program.a comprehensive who health research system analysis (hrsa)- based evaluation system was developed to evaluate the hrs in iran. this article has explored the results of the five-year evaluation (2003-2008) and aims to ...

background: planning, organizing, staffing, leading and monitoring are the basic functional component of management. in present article, we aim to define the project monitoring and evaluation in health research system (hrs) considering its success and challenges based on our national experience. methods: in this study based on the information of annual medical science universities evaluation du...