s:3020:"1. Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran Iran 2. Department of Epidemiology and Reproductive Health, Reproductive Epidemiology Research Center, Royan Institute, ACECR, Tehran Iran Informed consent is considered the most important step in clinical interventions. According to the Beauchamp’s definition the consent is: “...an a...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions on the U.S.-Mexico Border, and culturally competent diabetes education is not available in many communities. CONTEXT People with diabetes often do not have access to regular medical care, cannot afford medication, and lack the community infrastructure that supports self-management practices. Self-management education and support have great ...

It is becoming “a truth universally acknowledged” that the education of undergraduate medical students will be enhanced through the use of computer assisted learning. Access to the wide range of online options illustrated in the figure must surely make learning more exciting, effective, and likely to be retained. This assumption is potentially but by no means inevitably correct. Deans of medica...

The demand for experiential learning opportunities for student pharmacists has been increasing in both Canada and the United States. The increasing number and duration of experiential placements in hospitals, combined with a limited number of pharmacist preceptors, may jeopardize the ability to achieve curricular outcomes. Many institutions use a 1:1 ratio of student pharmacists to preceptors f...

Background: Patient education is taken into account as one of the key components of comprehensive care as well as one of the significant nursing functions in order to increase community health. In this respect, education materials and written texts can improve patient information up to 50% and consequently meet patient satisfaction. Readability is considered as an integral concept in patient ed...

Background: The implementation of patient education within a hospital is a difficult task that plays a key role in improving and controlling diseases and providing quality healthcare services. Objective: The current study evaluated the effect of patient education on the quality of nursing care and inpatient satisfaction in surgical wards of selected hospi...

OBJECTIVE To study patients' acceptance of corticotomy-assisted orthodontics as a treatment option. METHODS Adult patients seeking orthodontic treatment were asked to complete two sets of questionnaires; the first set included questions about age, sex, and level of education and general questions about orthodontic treatment; and the second set was related to the corticotomy-assisted orthodont...

OBJECTIVE To compare characteristics for patients scheduled for autologous chondrocyte implantation with matrix-assisted chondrocyte implantation (MACI) with those enrolled in clinical trials and to describe differences in patient selection between countries. DESIGN Anonymized data from patients scheduled for MACI treatment in the knee in Europe and Australia/Asia were obtained from the Genzy...