OBJECTIVE The paper presents a new trend of weight-for-height index of 2397 school children (1268 boys and 1129 girls) aged 6.5-11.5 years by sex in a representative sample from primary schools of Shiraz (Southern Iran) at an interval of 15 years (1988-2003) and its relation to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data (2000). METHODS The data relate to a multi-stage random sam...

Salvatore Gianluca Leonardi 1, Maryam Bonyani 1,2, Kaushik Ghosh 3, Ashish K. Dhara 3, Luca Lombardo 1, Nicola Donato 1 and Giovanni Neri 1,* 1 Department of Engineering, University of Messina, C.da di Dio, 98166 Messina, Italy; [email protected] (S.G.L.); [email protected] (M.B.); [email protected] (L.L.); [email protected] (N.D.) 2 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, S...

OBJECTIVES To assess compliance with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) guidelines of prophylactic antibiotic use in private hospitals in Shiraz, Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed using prospective data gathered from April to September 2010 in the surgical wards of all private hospitals in Shiraz. Administrative data, patient characteristics, and ant...

OBJECTIVE The main goal of this study was to assess differences in the vaginal flora of pregnant women and provide a detailed evaluation of vaginal swabs for the presence of group B streptococcus (GBS) and other organisms in three teaching hospitals in Shiraz, southwest of Iran. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In a cross-sectional study from April 2006 to March 2007, 310 women with vaginal delivery at t...

This study employs Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) to estimate environmental impact of salt plugs using Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). VNIR and SWIR datasets of ASTER were assessed in mapping and detecting Jahani, Konarsiah, and Kohe Gach salt plugs and the affected areas located at SE Shiraz, Iran. PC color composite and geological map of the region were u...

BACKGROUND Despite the enhancement in health outcomes worldwide, health inequity and inequality is one of the most relevant topics both for health policy and public health. This research was designed to decompose the health inequality of people living in Shiraz, south-west Iran. METHODS Data were obtained from a multistage-sample survey conducted in Shiraz from April to May 2012, to find dete...

Microplastics (MPs) are a pervasive and ubiquitous environmental contaminant. However, very little information exists on the quantities or characteristics of MPs in indoor setting. In present study, have been isolated from settled classroom dust samples collected 50 schools city Shiraz, Iran. Concentrations number basis ranged about 80 to over 56,000 MP per g dry there was an increase concentra...

BACKGROUND International research shows that medical errors (MEs) are a major threat to patient safety. The present study aimed to describe MEs and barriers to reporting them in Shiraz public hospitals, Iran. METHODS A cross-sectional, retrospective study was conducted in 10 Shiraz public hospitals in the south of Iran, 2013. Using the standardised checklist of Shiraz University of Medical Sc...

Background: The injection of retrobulbar block is associated with significant pain and discomfort. Therefore a short-acting IV analgesic before retrobulbar injection has been advocated. Objective: To compare remifentanil, alfentanil and fentanyl in providing analgesia for retrobulbar block injection. Methods: 69 patients were enrolled randomly into three groups of 23 each to receive either Remi...