background: increasing attention to the concept of polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) health-related quality of life has led to the development of tool that aims to measure this concept. objective: the purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review of psychometric properties of the pcos health-related quality of life questionnaire. materials and methods: a search of database (pubmed, ps...

introduction: consumers have referred to the web to learn how they can improve their health, prevent disease and learn details about specific diseases. while efforts are being made to monitor information found on the web especially with the emergence of her: electronic health record in iran, they are not enough to cover every web site with health information. as a result, it was decided to eval...

OBJECTIVES To describe health-related quality of life in Norwegian patients with narcolepsy compared with data from the general population. PATIENTS AND METHODS Seventy-seven patients with narcolepsy with cataplexy were included in the final analysis. Health-related quality of life was assessed by SF-36 questionnaire. RESULTS Men and women with narcolepsy had lower scores in all SF-36 domai...

Sir, Measurements are very important in all activities so as to differentiate and rank among themselves. Health care services are generally administered by professionals but are received by patients and so they may have different perceptions. Doctors who are providers of health care are almost satisfied with the clinical outcomes. On the contrary, the patients are more sensitive to the treatmen...

tracheal injection of ovalbumin-fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) or ovalbumin and were killed at varying time points thereafter depending on the aspect of DC function being studied (migration, maturation, or T-cell activation). Lung cells were isolated, and the numbers of DCs were determined in exposed and unexposed mice by flow cytometry. Migration of lung DCs to thoracic lymph nodes (TLNs) w...

background: sleep disorders among heart failure (hf) patients negatively influence the quality of life. awareness of sleep disturbances, as one of the disturbing factors of the quality of life among hf patients, and its related factors would help health care staff to provide more comprehensive care. hence, this study was conducted to determine the quality of sleep and its related factors in hos...