background non-diagnosed depression might postpone the physical healing of patients and negatively affects prognosis. the rate of major depressive disorder among patients of general practitioners in the united states reaches 10 percent and among patients admitted to the inner wards reaches 15 percent. patients and methods a cross sectional study on physician of two hospitals was performed. a qu...

background: physicians and medical students are at risk of exposure to a broad range of viral pathogens through percutaneous injury, contact of mucous membrane with blood, and other potentially infectious body fluids. the objective of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitude, and practice (kap) of physicians and medical students of rafsanjan university of medical sciences, iran, rega...

background: although ionizing radiation is very important in diagnostic and treatment of many diseases, the hazards of this radiation are considerable and irrefutable. one of the main stages in radiation protection is knowledge about radiation dose in radiological investigation. the aim of this study was to determine the physicians' knowledge in radiological examinations. materials and methods:...

nutritional care is an important part of medical care of patients and plays a key role in improvement, prevention and control of malnutrition in hospitals. the current study aimed to determine the nutrition knowledge level of doctors, nurses and nutritionists in some teaching hospitals in tehran in 2008. in a cross-sectional study a total of 198 samples including 28 nutritionists, 81 nurses and...

introduction: oxygen is a drug and physician and nurses should be familiar with the effects and potential risks of oxygen therapy. the current study aimed to assess familiarity of physicians and nurses with various aspects of oxygen therapy. method: in this cross sectional study, the familiarity of physicians and nurses with various aspects of oxygen therapy in a teaching hospital was evaluated...

background: epidemiology is the base of public health and preventive medicine. this study was conducted to identify the rate of awareness and attitude of 1000 fars general physicians about epidemiology science in 2010 methods: the present study performed as cross-sectional on working general physicians (gps) in 20 of fars provinces in 1-stage cluster sampling. in the study, factors such as age,...

conclusions knowledge and attitude of young physicians were more based on ebm compare to old physicians. a significant difference in knowledge mean score of physician shows that the ebm is still new in iran, the future physician’s critical need to learn ebm and necessity of entering emb at all medical levels. results of the 120 questionnaires we have sent, 94 (78.3%) were answered. 56.6% were u...

background: andropause in men refers to the clinical and biochemical syndrome associated with advanced age and characterized by a deficiency in serum testosterone levels. with the increase in aging male population and life span in iran and focus on quality of life, andropause will become a major health issue that needs to be addressed in order to prevent disability. the results of some research...

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/ort Fax +49 761 4 52 07 14 [email protected] www.karger.com Physicians’ and Patients’ Knowledge of Cancer Screening – A Wake-Up Call A study that surveyed 65 German physicians yielded no better results [7]. 76% thought that the 5-year survival rate demonstrated the benefit of screening, and only 1 of the 65 physicians was in a position to adequately exp...