The major purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing the design of agriculturaladvisory service network in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran. The population of thisresearch consisted of consultants who provided services to farmers. By using a Cochranformula, 306 respondents were selected. The results showed that consultants faced manyobstacles such as lack of necessary facilit...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the rate of simultaneous second primary tumor (SPT) in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma. The survival of patients with simultaneous SPT was also compared with patients without. METHODS The presence of SPT was documented along with the patients' demographic data, tumor-related features, and survival status. Kaplan-Meier method w...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether early maternal discharge increases newborn readmission rates. METHODS Singleton vaginal deliveries weighing at least 2500 grams were extracted from April 1, 1997 to March 31, 2000 Alberta hospital abstracts and linked to records of birth. Potentially preventable readmissions were for dehydration, jaundice, feeding problems, inadequate weight gain, and social rea...

BACKGROUND Donors commonly fund innovative interventions to improve health in the hope that governments of low and middle-income countries will scale-up those that are shown to be effective. Yet innovations can be slow to be adopted by country governments and implemented at scale. Our study explores this problem by identifying key contextual factors influencing scale-up of maternal and newborn ...

PURPOSE This study examined the extent to which faculty evaluation results differed, based on whether residents were required to submit ratings anonymously or not. METHOD We used a retrospective analysis of existing records representing Internal Medicine residents' evaluation of 51 faculty members in an anonymous and known (non-anonymous) rater system on an inpatient medicine service. RESUL...

Accuracy in cataloguing records is of paramount importance in catalogues. It is not difficult to imagine that errors in the metadata hamper the retrieval of bibliographic records. The present study attempts to investigate the error rate found in the metadata records of the Mysore University Library (MUL). The MUL is one of the oldest university libraries in the country, India. The study selecte...

By means of ambulance records, the current state of medical services for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) was investigated in Chiba City and Ichihara City, Japan. From all patients transported by ambulance personnel in 1992 (n=31,191), 388 patients who were admitted within 2 weeks after the onset were studied. Types of admitting institution, diagnoses, medical treatments and p...

The Indian academic system is in a period of rapid transition, evidenced by the increasing number higher education institutions, students and academics. However, very few studies have explored academics’ research productivity various factors influencing it. Even those largely ignored influences indigenous dishonesty on productivity. Using mixed-method approach, this explores how changing enviro...