clinical trial committee (ctc) has been established in food and drug organization (fdo), in 2003 to assure efficacy and safety of all types of medicinal products which are meant to be registered in iran drug list and/or obtain market authorization.all clinical trial files, meeting minutes and databases in ctc secretariat in fdo were reviewed. relevant information and data extracted, analyzed an...

background: at the present time, teaching pharmacology for medical students mainly focuses on the basic principles of pharmacology. this study was conducted to assess the current situation of pharmacology teaching and the necessity of developing clinical pharmacology from the viewpoint of medical interns and externs in tabriz university of medical sciences. methods: this descriptive cross-secti...

Many randomized clinical trials include a data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) that is responsible for reviewing accruing data, monitoring performance of the trial, assuring safety of the participants in the trial, and assessing the efficacy of treatment. The DSMB often makes recommendations about continuation of the trial or alteration of the protocol. Although such boards are very influent...

Background: Accurate clinical information provided on dermatopathology requisition forms is often very important to achieve correct diagnosis. We searched to evaluate the clinical information actually provided on the Dermatopathology requisition forms of melanocytic lesions submitted to our laboratory. Method: The provided clinical information and given microscopic diagnoses were recorded for m...

conclusions it was concluded that hcos need an hit clearly designed with km and they have to recognize where knowledge is resided, when designing strategies to warrant that knowledge is being created and transferred in the best way and to the right persons. otherwise, the hcos do not use an efficiency-oriented hit. results according to the obtained results 15% of the subjects highly used clinic...

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to evaluate the status of information on forest and data transfer and to identify the gaps in information and data flow in forestry sector in Iran. The study evaluated the data and information flow in three levels (control offices level, provincial offices level and organizational offices level) using the document analysis and questioning (interviews and ques...

This paper describes the participation of Mayo Clinic NLP team in the Text REtreival Conference (TREC) 2016 Clinical Decision Support track. We propose an ensemble model which combines three components: a Part-of-Speech based query term weighting model (POSBoW); a Markov Random Field model leveraging clinical information extraction (IE-MRF); and a Relevance Pseudo Feedback (RPF) model. We submi...

INTRODUCTION The development of tools to meet the information needs of clinicians requires an understanding of the clinician and the context in which clinical decisions are being made. METHODS We conducted an observational study of clinicians' information needs via think-aloud protocols during which we observed physicians and nurses as they used the clinical information system. Protocol analy...

OBJECTIVE: The i2b2 Medication Extraction Challenge provided an opportunity to evaluate our entity extraction methods, contribute to the generation of a publicly available collection of annotated clinical notes and start developing methods for ontology-based reasoning using structured information generated from the unstructured clinical narrative. DESIGN: We addressed the task of extracting sal...