suicide rate in physicians has been reported to be higher than general population or other academics. previous studies found that 85-90% of people who commit suicide had been suffering from some type of psychiatric disorder. suicide prevention is the key element in lowering the numbers of physicians who destroy themselves and end their lives each year. it is needed to provide some educational p...

Background: At the end of patients’ lives, physicians sometimes provide medication with explicit intention to hasten death. Physicians’ assessment such acts varies. We studied which characteristics are associated physicians’ classification these acts.

Accessibility to all levels of information technology has experienced rapid progress in recent years, particularly in the health sector. Rapid penetration into this technology has led to changes in lifestyles and changes in the working procedures of institutions. In 2014, the number of Internet users reached 3 billion, and this number is predicted to exceed 8 billion in 2018. Statistics estimat...

although remarkable advances in modern medicine have brought about new strategies to cure diseases, there are still many people who tend to take herbal remedies to regain their own wellbeing. despite this tendency among the ordinary iranian patients, the issue is somehow controversial between medical practitioners. today it is known that physicians' attitude towards efficiency of herbs affects ...

background we aimed to identify the indicators of healthcare fraud and abuse in general physicians’ drug prescription claims, and to identify a subset of general physicians that were more likely to have committed fraud and abuse.   methods we applied data mining approach to a major health insurance organization dataset of private sector general physicians’ prescription claims. it involved 5 ste...