IMPORTANCE Brain death is the irreversible cessation of function of the entire brain, and it is a medically and legally accepted mechanism of death in the United States and worldwide. Significant variability may exist in individual institutional policies regarding the determination of brain death. It is imperative that brain death be diagnosed accurately in every patient. The American Academy o...

We report on the 2008 update of Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism (PE) of the European Society of Cardiology that have been endorsed and recommended by the Croatian Cardiac Society. The guidelines focus on currently available and validated methods of diagnosis, prognostic assessment (prediction of outcome and death risk), treatment of pulmonary embolism and ...

“death” as one of the basic subject and a fact is considered by all contemporary and previous poets and scholars. ghaddeh-samman, an arab poet and writer, was influenced by the defeat of arabs from israel in one hand, and because of his presence in lebanon since the civil war in the country was influenced by bad effects of the war in the other hand. thats why the word “death” overruled its imag...

background: authorship of peer-reviewed publications can create conflict among academics. objective: to document authorship conflicts of academics at a tertiary faculty. methods: an anonymous questionnaire eliciting authorship conflicts and knowledge of authorship criteria was administered online to 154 academic staff members at a new zealand university. results: 43 academics responded, a respo...

background: the most common method of collecting data in any area of human health research is to apply a questionnaire. however, if extreme cautiousness is not taking into account while designing a questionnaire, the gathered data might be ineffective. therefore, the aim of the present article is to discuss some of the most important set of guidelines in designing a questionnaire.   materials a...

conclusions the association between viral hepatitis and nhl in the area of interest might provide some degree of explanation to this finding. our data confirm that due to epidemic infection of hcv in the area of naples, a high mortality for nhl persists, moreover the adoption of standard therapeutic protocols administered in full accordance with an evidence-based approach and current guidelines...

background avoidable mortality as an indicator for assessing the health system performance has caught the attention of researchers for a long time. in this study we aimed to compare the health system performance using this indicator in rural and urban areas of one of iran’s southern provinces.   methods all deaths (29916) which happened during 2004–2011 in bushehr province were assessed. nolte ...