as described in the first part of this article, evidence based medicine (ebm) is a growing part of medical practice which emphasizes on the best evidence. finding this evidence by formulating an answerable question and searching strategies were described in the first part of this review. in this part, appraising the retrieved article (with the main focus on the diagnostic studies) and applying ...

background and objectives: bacterial bloodstream infections (bsis) and surgical site infections (ssis) are among the most common nosocomial infections with high mortality and morbidity. we aimed to evaluate the frequency of various species among bsis and ssis at tehran heart center, tehran, iran. methods: patients with localized or systemic infections that became evident 48 hours or more after ...

with using antibiotic in societies which usage of this kind of the drug without any limitation cause appear resistance against antibiotics.this survey consider to use the extract and essence of the cinnamon (which have a so many rate of planting in iran) and also survey on extract on bacteria whose cause urinary tract infections, and compare this with common antibiotics. this study was experime...

introdouction: dentinal hypersensitivity (dh) is one of the most painful chronic problems reported in dental offices. various methods have been applied for the treatment of dh. however, majority of them are either ineffective or last for a short period of time. it has been reported that lasers, particularly neodymium- doped: yttrium aluminum garnet laser (nd: yag), can be helpful in the treatme...

ru/al2o3 catalysts were prepared by conventional incipient wetness impregnation as well as colloid deposition of rucl3 precursor via in situ reduction with ethylene glycol (polyol) method on alumina support. the samples were characterized by tem, xrd and tpr techniques. the catalytic performance tests were carried out in a fixed-bed micro-reactor under different operating conditions. ethylene g...

background: magnetic resonance cholangiography (mrc) has gained popularity for diagnosing primary sclerosing cholangitis (psc). we determined the accuracy of mrc compared with endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (erc) for diagnosing psc. materials and methods: this retrospective case-control study was conducted on patients referred to an outpatient gastroenterology clinic from 2001 to 2013. p...

results mean age was 41.6 ± 9.2 for the military truck drivers and 43.4 ± 10.9 for commercial truck drivers (p > 0.05). no significant difference between military and commercial drivers was found in terms of driving experience, number of mvcs, binocular va, frequency of color vision defects and cs scores. in contrast, the last ocular examination was significantly earlier in military drivers tha...

background: core needle biopsy (cnb) with histological findings is regarded as one of the most important diagnostic measures that make preoperative assessment and planning for appropriate treatment possible. the aim of this study was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of core biopsy results in our patients with benign and malignant breast lumps, especially for borderline breast lesion...

background: the role of the breast clinics is to diagnose breast cancer and reassure patients with benign disorders. one stop clinics - same day reporting - further reduce anxiety caused by the delay in the results. the first one stop clinic was introduced in squh–oman in september 2011. methods: this retrospective analysis of 395 consecutive cases presented to breast one stop clinic at squh wa...

background shiga-toxigenic escherichia coli is an important human pathogen cause of diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic uremic syndrome and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in humans is a significant public health. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the molecular characteristics and antimicrobial resistance properties of shiga toxigenic escherichia coli (stec) strains wit...