introduction: doing chest x ray (cxr) for all trauma patients is not efficient and cost effective due to its low diagnostic value. the present study was designed aiming to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of thoracic injury rule out criteria (tirc) in prediction of traumatic intra-thoracic injuries and need for cxr.  method: the present study is a prospective cross-sectional study that has been...

prediction of the outcome and severity of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (ugib) has significant importance in patient care, disposition, and determining the need for emergent endoscopy. recent international recommendations endorse using scoring systems for management of non-variceal ugib patients. to date, different scoring systems have been developed for predicting the risk of 30-day mo...

background: we aimed to assess the high-risk group for suicide using different classification methods includinglogistic regression (lr), decision tree (dt), artificial neural network (ann), and support vector machine (svm). methods: we used the dataset of a study conducted to predict risk factors of completed suicide in hamadan province, the west of iran, in 2010. to evaluate the high-risk grou...

the issue of medical errors is currently a global concern which places a heavy financial and emotional burden on communities. a clinical decision support system (cdss) is an electronic system designed to support clinical decision making. considering the increasing importance and use of systematized nomenclature of medicine-clinical terms (snomed-ct), we developed snomed-ct to implement it more ...

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) has been traditionally used as a planning tool primarily for product development and quality improvement. In this context, many people have used QFD for making decisions on how to prioritize critical product areas from a customer perspective. However, it is the position of the author that the QFD process can be viewed as a decision support system that would enc...