CHLOROTHIAZIDE, commercially available as Diuril, was introduced to the general medical profession January 1, 1958. It had been available to clinical investigators during the previous year. In this span it has won wide acceptance as an oral diuretic and antihypertensive agent. These comments should be considered in the light of this relatively brief experience. The chemical structure of chlorot...

introduction. medical education quality improvement is a main problem of medical education system in iran. one of the strategies for medical education quality improvement is internal evaluation. general instruction objectives are determining problems of clinical departments and introducing strategies in different levels of management for solving the problems and following up suggestions. method...

purpose: to determine the clinical and paraclinical features of multiple sclerosis (ms) in patients presenting for the first time with optic neuritis. methods:  in this descriptive study, 35 patients with clinical evidence of optic neuritis were enrolled. our evaluation included a neurological examination, visual evoked potentials (vep), brainstem-auditory evoked potentials (baep), and brain mr...

introduction. evaluation of scholastic achievment is an important part of the educational process. therefore assessment principles, methods and practices must be entirely compatible with education objectives. the previous studies have indicated that at most medical colleges evaluation methods are monotonous. these traditional methods are neither profitable nor appropriate to assess the clinical...

Background The purpose of implementing a system such as Clinical Governance (CG) is to integrate, establish and globalize distinct policies in order to improve quality through increasing professional knowledge and the accountability of healthcare professional toward providing clinical excellence. Since CG is related to change, and change requires money and time, CG implementation has to be focu...