we aimed to evaluate the timeliness of reporting of malaria surveillance system and understanding the existing problems.the timeliness of malaria surveillance system of iran was evaluated in four provinces of iran including sistan & baluchistan, hormozgan, kerman (as provinces with local malaria transmission) and khuzestan (without local malaria transmission). in this descriptive-analytic cross...

backgroundand objectives: the disease control in iran is mainly based on routine reporting of notifiable diseases in the national health system. on time reportingof diseases and appropriate action for reported cases are essential in this system. the aim of this study was to determine the status of routine reporting system of notifiable diseases in private sector physicians of hamadan province. ...

context randomized controlled trials (rcts) are important tools for evidence-based health care decisions. it is, therefore, important that they be conducted and reported with the highest possible standards. the aim of this study was to evaluate the reporting quality of the rcts published in nephrology urology monthly journal and to examine whether there was a change over time in the reporting q...

introduction: the purpose of this article was to evaluate the quality of sample size calculation reports in published clinical trials in journal of endodontics and international endodontic journal in years 2000-1 and 2009-10. materials and methods: articles fulfilling the inclusion criteria were collected. the criteria were: publication year, research design, types of control group, reporting s...

the study objects for investigating the possibility of activating both audit committee and board of directors for restricting the practices of earnings management phenomenon. to achieve this objective, a questionnaire had been developed and self-administered for a selected sample consists of 123 auditors working in jordan based on the simple random sampling method. the study first hypothesis is...

Research synthesis has an important role supporting the transfer of knowledge between researchers and healthcare decision-makers. But if our goal is to make knowledge more useable and context specific, then extending the scope of systematic reviews or producing syntheses with policy makers and managers may be insufficient. Dialogues, partnerships and reinterpretations of evidence in context wil...

The contributors to this document are aware that an undertaking of the magnitude proposed here will require significantly more collaborators than are listed below. Accordingly , they invite and welcome individuals with similar interests in any part of this enterprise to join with them by informing any of the undersigned. A meeting of the interested parties will be held soon.

In his recent critique of Educational Neuroscience, Bowers argues that neuroscience has no role to play in informing education, which he equates with classroom teaching. Neuroscience, he suggests, adds nothing to what we can learn from psychology. In this commentary, we argue that Bowers' assertions misrepresent the nature and aims of the work in this new field. We suggest that, by contrast, ps...