our aim was to evaluate the short and long term efficacy of botulinum toxin therapy in iranian patients with achalasia. in a randomized, double blind trial, 20 patients with achalasia, referring to imam khomeini hospital, received either 80 units of botulinum toxin (bt) or placebo (pl) from 1995 to 1998. two weeks later, the response to treatment was assessed on the basis of changes in the symp...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background : during august 2009, novel h1n1 influenza virus began causing illness in isfahan. since rates of hospitalization and mortality due to the disease have varied widely in different countries, we described the clinical, radiologic, and demographic features of h1n1 hospitalized patients in a hospital in isfahan. met...

background: awareness of dental students’ views from the clinical departments will help on developing strategies for qualitative and quantitative improvement of clinical skills. the purpose of this study was an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the clinical departments of babol dental school, from students' views point, to provide feedback for improving of clinical skills train...

background and objectives: respecting privacy means respecting individuals, their dignity and independence. it is mandatory to observe privacy in health-care systems. therefore, this study was carried out with the aim of expressing nursing students’ experience of privacy in pediatrics ward. methods: this qualitative study was done inductively using content analysis method. the participants incl...

objective: the present study was aimed to correlate the clinical tests with the laboratory measures under dual task conditions in parkinson's disease (pd). materials and methods: eleven people with idiopathic pd (modified hoehn and yahr scores 1-3) were selected by simple non-probability sampling. center of pressure (cop) data obtained by force platform was used to calculate mean total velocity...

dna vaccination has been developed as a noteworthy immunotherapeutic approach for the battle against many serious challenges to human and animal safety, including infectious illnesses, autoimmunity, allergy and cancer. clinical trials prepare chances to examine whether dna vaccines can fulfill their final aim of demonstrating efficiency in treating humans. today, anticancer dna vaccines are qui...

there is a number of models and strategies for improving the quality of care such as total quality management, continuous quality improvement and clinical governance. the policy of clinical governance is part of the governments overall strategy for monitoring, assuring and improving in the national health services organization. clinical governance has been introduced as a bridge between manager...

lack of scientific and confirmed researches and expert knowledge about evaluation systems for clinical governance development in iran have made studies on different evaluation systems for clinical governance development a necessity. these studies must provide applied strategies to design criteria of implementing clinical governance for hospital's accreditation. this is a descriptive and compara...

background: educational clinical environment has an important role in nursing students' learning. any difference between actual and expected clinical environment will decrease nursing students’ interest in clinical environments and has a negative correlation with their clinical performance.   methods : this descriptive cross-sectional study is an attempt to compare nursing students'perception o...

clinical learning occurs in the context of a dynamic environment. learning environment found to be one of the most important factors in determining the success of an effective teaching program. to investigate, from the attending and resident's perspective, factors that may affect student leaning in the educational hospital setting at shiraz university of medical sciences (sums). this study comb...