Background: Resistance to antibiotics, including aminoglycosides  (AMG) is one of the problems associated with inappropriate administration of broad-spectrum antibiotics. Objectives: This study aimed to assess the clinical features of aminoglycosides consumption based on the Defined Daily Dose (DDD) index in open heart surgery. Methods: This study was done on 268 patients who underwent heart s...

introduction: due to dissimilarities in the availability of poisons in different areas and lack of enough control over the purchase and sale of some dangerous rodenticides, it is prudent to establish the distribution of rodenticide poisoning in each region. therefore, this study was performed to evaluate the demographic factors, types of poisons, duration of hospitalization and mortality of pat...

BACKGROUND Depot antipsychotics are a treatment option for medication nonadherence in patients with schizophrenia. Nonadherence can lead to increased relapse and hospitalization rates. This article reports hospitalization data before and after initiation of olanzapine long-acting injection (LAI), a depot antipsychotic. METHODS Data were assessed from an ongoing, multinational, prospective, ob...

background: to assess the therapeutic effects of oral zinc supplementation on acute watery diarrhea of children with moderate dehydration. methods: all 9-month to 5-year-old children who were admitted with acute watery diarrhea and moderate dehydration to the children ward of motahari hospital, urmia, iran in 2008 were recruited. after the application of the inclusion and exclusion criteria, th...

Objective: The role of environmental factors in the development of type1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) is inconclusive. This study aimed to investigate the associations between selected environmental factors and T1D. Materials and Methods: This group matched case-control study included diabetic and healthy subjects younger than 19 years old in 2017. Cases were diabetic subjects diagnosed before the ...