Magnesium and Osteoporosis: Current State of Knowledge and Future Research Directions

Patient Engagement and its Evaluation Tools – Current Challenges and Future Directions; Comment on “Metrics and Evaluation Tools for Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organization- and System-Level Decision-Making: A Systematic Review”

Considering the growing recognition of the importance of patient engagement in healthcare decisions, research and delivery systems, it is important to ensure high quality and efficient patient engagement evaluation tools. In this commentary, we will first highlight the definition and importance of patient engagement. Then we discuss the psychometric properties of the patient engagement evaluati...

Future Directions for the Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation (OR4KT) Tool: Response to Recent Commentaries

Knowledge of Nurses and Midwives on Risk Factors Associated with Osteoporosis

  Background and Objectives: This study aimed to investigate nurses’ and midwives’ current knowledge about the osteoporosis.   Material and Methods: In this survey, we used the FOOQ (The Facts on Osteoporosis Quiz) questionnaire to measure osteoporosis knowledge on 214 nurses and midwives in Valiasr hospital in Zanjan.   Results: Findings indicated a generally moderate to high level of knowledg...

Dietary Magnesium and Genetic Interactions in Diabetes and Related Risk Factors: A Brief Overview of Current Knowledge

Nutritional genomics has exploded in the last decade, yielding insights-both nutrigenomic and nutrigenetic-into the physiology of dietary interactions and our genes. Among these are insights into the regulation of magnesium transport and homeostasis and mechanisms underlying magnesium's role in insulin and glucose handling. Recent observational evidence has attempted to examine some promising r...

Intellectual Capital of Institutions of Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy

To determine the directions of managing the intellectual capital of a university, the authors studied the impact of the knowledge economy on the education sector, analysed the most prestigious international rankings of universities and their criteria and methodologies, assessed the current state and prospects of Ukrainian universities in global rankings. The study of theoretical developments ha...