background due to the high number of road accidents in iran, pre-hospital care plays a vital role in saving the lives of trauma patients. although several studies have been conducted on the pre-hospital emergency status and its indicators, there are no comprehensive studies presenting its status. objective therefore, this review examines iranian studies conducted on pre-hospital emergency statu...

Methods The study design was a survey, utilizing a phone questionnaire. 70 consecutively presenting patients undergoing 15 day surgery procedures in an Irish teaching hospital were invited to participate. Data collection was completed between June and July 2011. The survey evaluated 57 aspects of the DS process. Patients were asked to rate their level of satisfaction using a 5-point LIKERT scal...

1Department of Radiology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy 2Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy 3Department of Hematology/Oncology and Department of Radiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 4Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School and University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA,...

Occupational Health Program and Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Biostatistics, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Geography, National Changhua University of...

BACKGROUND In 1996, Congress passed legislation requiring the Department of Defense to conduct trauma training in civilian hospitals. In September of 1998 an Army team composed of surgeons, nurses, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and operating room technicians (OR techs) trained in a civilian level 1 trauma center. This study analyzes the quality of the training. METHODS The training pe...

Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Thessalia, Larissa, Greece; Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Patras, Greece; Department of Microbiology, Sismanoglion General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece; Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Patras, Greece; Department of Anaesthesiology, School of Medicine...

Material and methods All presentations made during scientific meetings from June 2011 to December 2013 were reviewed and their domains of study (research) were identified. Scientific meetings at a Military Teaching Hospital were organized, in order to promote research within Benin Armed Forces Health Services, through monthly meetings. Semester and annual planning was done for presentations as ...

awareness of women about emergency contraception in urmia     bahadori f [1] *, ayatolahi h [2] , yekta z [3] , fallahi v [4] , fallahi s4, mehdioghli r4     received: 12 mar, 2012 accepted: 25 may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : the aim of this study was awareness of women which were refer to family planning and kowsar center in urmia about emergency contraception.   materials & metho...

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