equity in access to and utilization of health services is a common goal of policy-makers in most countries. the fair allocation of human resources is one of the dimensions of equity, which was evaluated in this study.we evaluated the equity of human resources' distribution among iran's medical science universities between 2005 and 2009 by inequality measures including lorenze curve, gini coeffi...

BACKGROUND A criticism of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) in primary care is that they lack external validity, participants being unrepresentative of the wider population. Our aim was to determine whether published primary care-based RCTs report information about how the study sample is assembled, and whether this is associated with RCT characteristics. METHODS We reviewed RCTs published ...

To the Editor: In the intriguing report by Syring et al. (3), the authors concluded that comparable reductions in tidal recruitment were obtained by either applying external positive endexpiratory pressure (PEEP) or by increasing respiratory rate. This latter conclusion deserves scrutiny, but their data seem not to support it. First, the reported time constant (0.47 s) of the oxygen probe used ...

AIMS The mechanism by which enhanced external counterpulsation therapy exerts its beneficial effects on chronic and symptomatic stable angina is largely unknown. To clarify the mechanism of action of enhanced external counterpulsation, we used(13)N-ammonia positron emission tomography to evaluate myocardial perfusion. METHODS AND RESULTS This was not a randomized controlled study. Eleven pati...

Patient and family advisory councils (PFACs) advance patient- family-centered care within children’s hospitals but may not reflect the diversity of communities they serve. We sought to assess PFAC among explore barriers, drivers, enablers recruitment, retention, engagement patient advisors (PFAs) with diverse perspectives backgrounds. performed a mixed methods study evaluate structure, composit...

The purpose of this research is to formulate strategic decisions and steps for the UNIS Postgraduate Program based on accurate information gain a competitive advantage in next few years. This method analyze external internal environmental factors so that strategy formulation obtained as profile basis formulating necessary policy steps. results study found environment creates many opportunities ...

Today 1 per 5 people in Lebanon is a Syrian refugee. Lebanon, largely impacted by the Syrian-refugee crisis, followed “non-policy” and later confining policy for refugees-management. Based on EU Global Strategy of 2016, migration identified as principal threat European security. Recently, has exerted its external governance refugee-hosting countries like Lebanon. Having Union implemented resili...