this investigation determined that vitamin c intake of c.w. was higher than o.p. , s. c. and c. statistically, there was a significant difference between c.w. and c. blood ascorbic acid levels of o.p. and s.c. were lower than c.w. and c. , a significant difference was observed. urinary vitamin c in all groups was lower than controls and this indicates that even though vitamin c intake was high,...

the incidence of tetanus among wounded patients in greater isfahan in 5 years with their mortality was discussed, careful review of the literature. with consideration of commendations of the committee on trauma of the american college of surgeons, the german association for surgery and the swedish college .of surgeons about type of prophylactic measurement discussed and finally the basic trends...

background: vancomycin (glycopeptide)-resistant enterococci (vre or gre) can cause serious problems for hospitalized patients due to the limited options for treatment of vre infections. as infection with vre increases in hospitals, further knowledge about vancomycin resistant genes is needed. methods: isolates of enterococcus spp. were collected from hospitalized patients in tehran (iran) durin...

anti n-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (nmdr) encephalitis has been recognized as the most frequent autoimmune encephalitis in children after acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (adem).however due to the variable the variable clinical presentation, the paucity of specific finding on standard laboratory and radiological investigation remains under recognized. first discribed in 2005, most commonly...

conclusions using the simulation as a decision making tool helps us to decide how we can reduce outpatient's waiting time. comparison of outputs of this scenario and the based- case scenario in simulation model shows that combining physician's work time changing with patient's admission time changing (scenario 9) would reduce patient waiting time about 73.09%. due to dynamic and complex nature ...

how can patient learn to control their diabetes? the author believes that this important work happen by right training of reporting. since accurate reporting in the nursing profession is a skill, have you ever though that you teach this skill to their patients?   reporting about people with chronic disease especially diabetes is beneficial for the following reasons: determination dose of insuli...

Aim: to study the significance of prognostic scales in a target group patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) living Chelyabinsk region. Materials and methods. The included 21 confirmed diagnosis disease duration at least two years. endpoint studied was death. MELD, Mayo Risk Score, Amsterdam-Oxford PSC PREsTo score, UK-PSC Score were calculated based on medical records. Statistical ...

Although an official definition by the World Health Organization (WHO) or any other authority is currently lacking, hospital detention practices (HDP) can be described as: “refusing release of either living patients after medical discharge is clinically indicated or refusing release of bodies of deceased patients if families are unable to pay their hospital bills.” Reports of HDP are very scarc...

Liver transplantation is now a well-established therapeutic procedure for patients suffering from endstage liver disease. In the last few years, partly as a response to increasing demand for organs and partly as a result of improved technical expertise, livingrelated liver transplantation (LRLT) has emerged as an option to the traditional deceased-donor trans­ plant procedure. In most countries...