Saeid Eslami

Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

[ 1 ] - Nutrient-rich versus nutrient-poor foods for depressed patients based on Iranian Traditional Medicine resources

Objectives: Considering the positive effects of certain nutrients on depression, increasingly prevalent in the contemporary societies, we investigated the nutritional content of prescribed and prohibited foodstuffs for depressed patients in Iranian Traditional Medicine resources. Materials and Methods: In order to conduct the study, credible sources of Iranian Traditional Medicine were primaril...

[ 2 ] - Omega-3 and omega-6 content of medicinal foods for depressed patients: implications from the Iranian Traditional Medicine

Objectives: Considering the increasing prevalence of depression in modern societies and the positive effects of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on depression, this study aims to investigate the omega-3 and omega-6 content of various foodstuffs, prescribed or prohibited by Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM). Materials and Methods: Firstly, reliable sources of Iranian Traditional Medicine wer...

[ 3 ] - Factors Associated with Potential Food-Drug Interaction in Hospitalized Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study in Northeast Iran

Background: The minimization of adverse food-drug interactions will improve patient care by optimizing the therapeutic effects and maintaining proper nutritional status. Aim: The aim of the present study was to find the main factors that may place the hospitalized patients at risk of potential food-drug interactions. Method: This cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted on 400 inpatient...

[ 4 ] - Real Time Electronic Formative Assessment in Medical Education and Its Impact on Motivational Beliefs and Self-regulation Strategies

Background and Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of real-time electronic formative assessment-based medical education on learners’ motivational beliefs and self-regulation strategies. Methods: This randomized clinical trial was conducted on 323 students studying at the Medical School of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, during the first semeste...

[ 5 ] - Explaining Faculty Members' Experience about the Process of Attending to an International Conferences: A Mixed Methods Research

Introduction: Attendance at conferences is considered as a professional necessity for most of the researchers and scientists. Currently, no study has been conducted in Iran to evaluate the pros and cons of attending to the medical international conferences. The aim of this study was to determine the problems and consequences of attendance at conference, as well as its academic benefits and scie...

[ 6 ] - Feature selection using genetic algorithm for breast cancer diagnosis: experiment on three different datasets

Objective(s): This study addresses feature selection for breast cancer diagnosis. The present process uses a wrapper approach using GA-based on feature selection and PS-classifier. The results of experiment show that the proposed model is comparable to the other models on Wisconsin breast cancer datasets. Materials and Methods: To evaluate effectiveness of proposed feature selection method, we ...

[ 7 ] - A diagnostic model for cirrhosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: an artificial neural network approach

  Background :Timely diagnosis of liver cirrhosis is vital for preventing further liver damage and giving the patient the chance of transplantation. Although biopsy of the liver is the gold standard for cirrhosis assessment, it has some risks and limitations and this has led to the development of new noninvasive methods to determine the stage and prognosis of the patients. We aimed to design an...

[ 8 ] - طراحی، توسعه و اعتباریابی الگوی محیط یادگیری مبتنی بر سنجش تکوینی الکترونیکی بلادرنگ

اهداف: این مطالعه با هدف طراحی، توسعه و بررسی اعتبار محتوایی الگوی محیط یادگیری مبتنی بر سنجش تکوینی الکترونیکی بلادرنگ در آموزش پزشکی انجام پذیرفت. روش بررسی: در پژوهش حاضر طرح تحقیق آمیخته مورد استفاده قرار گرفت. ابتدا تحلیل محتوای کیفی با طرح استقرایی انجام و بر اساس نتایج حاصل، الگوی اولیه ترسیم گردید. در بخش کمی اعتبار محتوایی الگو از نظر متخصصان به روش پیمایشی پرسشنامه‌ای بررسی شد. جهت ان...

[ 9 ] - شناسایی عوامل مرتبط با ترخیص رضایت شخصی در بخش اورژانس: یک مطالعه مقطعی

مقدمه انتخاب بیمار برای خروج از بیمارستان قبل از اینکه پزشک معالج، وی را مرخص اعلام کند ترخیص با رضایت شخصی (Discharge Against Medical Advice - DAMA) نامیده می‌‌شود. هدف از انجام این مطالعه، شناسایی مشخصات بیماران DAMA و مقایسه آنها با سایر بیماران که با نظر پزشک ترخیص شده‌‌اند (Non-DAMA) است. مواد و روش‌‌ها مطالعه حاضر به روش مقطعی بر روی کلیه بیماران ترخیص شده از بخش اورژانس بیمارستان امام رض...

[ 10 ] - Factors Affecting Patients’ Adherence to Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Disorder: A Multi-Method Approach

Background: Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the gold standard therapy for treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) disorder. However, patients’ adherence to its regular use is poor. The present study aimed to determine the adherence rate to CPAP therapy by identifying factors affecting its regular use and its associated problems and discomforts among a sample population in Mashhad (...

[ 11 ] - The worldwide frequency of MYO15A gene mutations in patients with autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss: A meta‐analysis

MYO15A is the third most crucial gene in hereditary sensorineural hearing loss after GJB2 and SLC26A4. In the present study, we reviewed the prevalence of MYO15A mutations in patients with autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss (ARNSHL). In this meta-analysis, we conducted a search of PubMed, Web of Science, Excerpta Medica Database, and Scopus, and identified the articles up to Septemb...