of planning. according to the family physician’s idea, evaluating programs in order to improve them is one of the necessities of promoting quality and increases the efficiency and effectiveness of continuing education. this study aimed to determine family physicians’ educational needs regarding health and its applicability in continuous medical education in fasa university of medical sciences. ...

BACKGROUND Global coronary heart disease (CHD) risk assessment is recommended to guide primary preventive pharmacotherapy. However, little is known about physicians' understanding and use of global CHD risk assessment. Our objective was to examine US physicians' awareness, use, and attitudes regarding global CHD risk assessment in clinical practice, and how these vary by provider specialty. M...

pemphigus is a rare autoimmune blistering disease with different phenotypes. the evaluation of therapeutic interventions requires a reliable, valid and feasible to use measurement. however, there is no gold standard to measure the disease activity in clinical trials. in this study we aimed to introduce the pemphigus vulgaris activity score (pvas) measurement and to assess the convergent validit...

BACKGROUND In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), there is discordance between patient and physician assessments of disease severity and treatment response. OBJECTIVE This retrospective analysis of the RADIUS (RA Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug Intervention and Utilization Study) 1 cohort examined specific factors that influence differences in global assessments for therapeutic effectiveness of ...

introduction: the need for global health training for early-career family medicine physicians is greater than the supply. this paper details the formation of a one-year, self-funded global health fellowship for early-career family medicine physicians. methods: in august of 2012, the university of washington department of family medicine established a self-funded, non-acgme (accreditation counci...

transportation is an important part of modern community life as well as one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in urban communities, the population growth of which can increase transportation capacity. monorail systems are relatively new rail transportation systems which are currently being designed and constructed in different countries. we have applied the intergovernmental pa...

Introduction: The need for global health training for early-career family medicine physicians is greater than the supply. This paper details the formation of a one-year, self-funded global health fellowship for early-career family medicine physicians. Methods: In August of 2012, the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine established a self...

Background: Military medicine is one of the important orders of military systems that takes responsibility for providing health services to the military forces. Military physicians need knowledge and skills required for their role. In today's world, different countries have designed and developed certain activities and curricula for military medical education at general and pro...

sleep problems are common complaints among pregnant women. this study was designed to compare subjective sleep problems in non-pregnancy condition, healthy and preeclamptic pregnancy as a major complication of pregnancy. we hypothesized that some sleep problems are more prevalent in females with preeclampsia.in this cross-sectional study, 102 women with preeclampsia, 106 healthy pregnant women ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical responsiveness of the CLASI (Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus [CLE] Disease Area and Severity Index). DESIGN Validation cohort. SETTING Tertiary referral center. Patients Eight patients with CLE. Intervention Assessment of patients with CLE from baseline until day 56 after starting a new standard of care therapy. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Correlation of the basel...